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In one of the largest enterprise-mandated migrations away from Microsoft's Office suite ever, Linux Magazine and German sources report that 360,000 IBM workers have been ordered to switch from Office to IBM's own Lotus Symphony suite. Symphony isn't open source, but it is free, and is deeply rooted in open source, originally based on OpenOffice code. Apparently, the employees have only ten days to switch, and Open Document Format (ODF) will become the standard file format at IBM, replacing .doc files. The German economic newspaper "Handelsblatt" also reports that 330,000 IBM workers already use Symphony.
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Andy Updegrove has an interesting post up in which he analyzes a product comparison from InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy. The upshot of Kennedy's comparison of office productivity application suites is that he finds the commercially developed, non-open source SoftMaker suite of productivity applications to be the best suite for sharing and competing with Microsoft Office. He also fires off some notable criticisms of the open source OpenOffice suite. The funny thing is, SoftMaker is a small, commercial provider without an open source arm.