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Collaboration with IBM?
by Darryl Wheatley on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @04:24

A while back someone (I think it was TJ Brumfeld) suggested that IBM could work with KOffice developers to produce a better version of Lotus Symphony that doesn't use OOo's clunky old codebase, that causes Symphony to have the speed of a turtle trapped in toffee. Would KOfficeSource GmbH be able to help in this regard by talking to IBM people about collaboration or does this have only a minuscule chance of success?

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Re: Collaboration with IBM?
by Anon on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @04:27

I'd also like to hear about this: IBM have smart engineers, and they should surely see that they could probably get much better progress with hiring the same amount of engineers with KOffice than with OO.o.

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Re: Collaboration with IBM?
by Borker on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @11:44

Mmmmm toffee turtle

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Re: Collaboration with IBM?
by blacky on Saturday 12/Jan/2008, @13:34

IBM has made contributions to Linux because they wanted to sell hardware. They use a totally different business model for Lotus. In fact, OpenOffice has never seen a line of code from IBM (they forked while it was permitted to go close source).

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