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Who Else Wants to Join the Open Office Development Community?

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by Kaj Kandler

Most users know that Sun Microsystems is the main force behind OpenOffice.org and its development community. Historically they did buy StarDivision and release Open Office as open source. Today, IBM announced to commit to the OpenOffice.org development community with a team of 35 developers in China working full time on the project. IBM also contributed today a chunk of code making the open source office suite more accessible for users with disabilities.

While IBM has developed the accessibility interface called iAccessible2 for a while and also supported ODF (ISO 26300) in its Lotus Notes products, this announcement is a long term commitment to develop OpenOffice.org as a competitive suite.

This entry was posted on Monday, September 10th, 2007 at 12:56 pm and is filed under China, Community, Development, IBM, ISO 26300, ODF, Open Office, Open Source, Sun Microsystems. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Who Else Wants to Join the Open Office Development Community?”

  1. What would the Director of Strategy at Lotus say? Says:
    September 14th, 2007 at 2:01 pm

    [...] what would Dan Heintzman, the director of strategy at Lotus, say about IBM joining the OpenOffice.org community? Andy Undergrove wondered too and interviewed Dan Heintzman from Lotus. Dan makes some interesting [...]

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