Business - Written by David Cameron on Monday, September 10, 2007 13:25 - 1 Comment
IBM embraces open source with OpenOffice.org partnership
IBM continues to engage in, and support more open source projects with their latest announcement to partner with OpenOffice.org in the development of their free productivity software.
“IBM will be making initial code contributions that it has been developing as part of its Lotus Notes product, including accessibility enhancements, and will be making ongoing contributions to the feature richness and code quality of OpenOffice.org.”
As with their other open source contributions for projects in Apache, Linux, Eclipse, and PHP, IBM will set to gain from this relationship by supporting a standard OpenDocument Format (ODF) in their Lotus Notes product and appealing to a larger user base.
They have already agreed to devote about 35 of their developers in China to supporting the OpenOffice initiative.
This announcement comes a week after Microsoft’s bid for an open document standard was denied, called the Office Open XML (coincidence that Open and Office are switched?) described here in the Herald Tribune. This paves the way for the OpenOffice Format to become the open standard for office suites, as governments’ demand for interchangeable office applications increases.
IBM has shown that supporting open source is a worth-while venture, isn’t it truly time for other companies to recognize the potential of supporting open source, and finding a way to contribute and benefit from these relationships?
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Standards are definitely a good thing but it may be too late for the document market to accept a new standard.
The unofficial standard, especially in the enterprise market is the .doc format. I see it very difficult for an open standard to get any traction without Microsoft endorsing it.
Being standards compliant is a compelling feature, but it isn’t the most standards compliant product that will be successful. If that were the case, then we’d see a lot more Opera browsers installed on PCs.