Lotus Symphony
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“Lotus Symphony is based on the Open Document Format (ODF) standard-which means you’re not locked into proprietary file formats, software licensing agreements and upgrades. Finally, free tools and freedom of choice!”
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IBM To Offer Free Office Software In Challenge To Microsoft — IBM — InformationWeek
“Because it’s free, Lotus Symphony could present a significant challenge to Microsoft’s new Office 2007 suite in the market for office productivity software.”
Open Source
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Mozilla tries Firefox recipe with Thunderbird | CNET News.com
“Mozilla wants to reproduce the Firefox Web browser’s success with Thunderbird, its open-source e-mail software.”
Virtual Worlds
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“In RedLightCenter.com, users can create their own avatar, or virtual representation of themselves, and they explore an online landscape that is populated with other avatars, nightclubs, casinos, stores, …”
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Linden Lab reveals the future of Second Life « Tao’s Thoughts on Second Life
“Now the big new here is that Linden Lab does not want to think about all this privately inside their offices but instead they want to discuss all this publically.”
I really like Lotus Symphony. Been using it a couple of days now and there are distinct differences between it and OpenOffice. As you say, it’s just one more choice with which to access my ODF files, and a suite I’m going to enjoy.
It was ‘parting of the ways’ today at IBM Hursley. My summer Intern left to go back to Warwick University http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/ .
I made sure he had a copy of http://symphony.lotus.com/ to take away; if Sam P is going to engage in ‘open commercial warfare’, then I presume he wants his foot-soldiers to follow through. I can distribute the one; Sam can distribute the hundred million. If he thinks it best.
My Intern said something quite interesting as he left. “Each academic year, when the students get back, the network is toasted for a couple of weeks”. We think this is due to the students’ computers giving each other all the viruses they have picked up over the summer. The same happens with people, and cold viruses.
He’s a molecular chemist, not a computer engineer. We were doing some interdisciplinary work, trying to get this thing http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/bluegene.index.html into a state where it could help accelerate the time-to-market for Big Pharma and new pharmaceuticals. Really, it needs to come out of the IBM Research labs and go into AstraZeneca’s labs. Or another Big Pharma. We can build more, we can satisfy demand.
Software is of no value until it’s deployed, delivering solutions to clients.
We’re pushing very hard.
Lotus Notes http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/notesanddomino/ . Take back control !