Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Thu 17th Sep 2009 20:49 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
"Quoting an inside source, the German economic newspaper, 'Handelsblatt' reports that staff at IBM have been given ten days to change to Symphony, IBM's in-house Lotus software. The use of Microsoft Office will in future require managerial approval. With immediate affect, the Open Document Format (ODF) will rule at IBM with the file ending .doc soon belonging to the past... IBM's management have obviously decided to practice what they preach. 330,000 IBM workers already use Symphony, reports the newspaper. The motive for the migration appears not to be the saving of license fees, and according to an IBM press officer, the move is a clear statement in appreciation of open source standards."
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2006-01-23
Effect is the word you want.
Odd to me that they were using MS Office, because they were still forcing people to use the mainframe's OfficeVision even years after there were really good word processors for OS/2. They could have been using OfficeVision for OS/2, even.
This is a step in the right direction. If more companies resist the claimed compatibility imperative, it's likely 2 things will happen: Microsoft will learn a new sense of compatibility and they'll be selling Office for similar prices to the competition.