It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. XForms is going to be a pivotal variable.
IBM this week quietly updated its Lotus Symphony desktop applications with a feature that hints at its broader strategy to use the Web and standards to up-end Microsoft's massive Office business.
Introduced last September, Lotus Symphony is a free suite of applications based on OpenOffice, an open-source alternative to Office. The fourth beta of Symphony, due for release next week, will add a module that will let IBM and other software companies add extensions to these applications.
Under a strategy called "Beyond Office," IBM is developing several technologies to make Symphony an extensible development platform for business applications and Web-based document editors.
IBM to take Lotus Symphony apps 'Beyond Office' | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
It all depends how you define "Office". Office today is considered the entire platfrom Microsoft refers to as 2007 Office System ...
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