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        <title>Cooperation would help...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It is very difficult to convince anyone to move away from Office while all the people they share information with use it, and while there is no obvious high-profile competitor....]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2003 06:41:18 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <title>IBM to offer J2EE-based MS Office Alternative</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=18854</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[What's wrong with OpenOffice?  If Sun didn't own it, I'm sure IBM would be all over it.... 
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<br>Rob]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2003 00:15:23 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:author>Rob` Clevenger</jf:author>
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        <title>Is it worth BUYING a SERVER S/W for the sake of office suite?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=18854</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[I don't think, IBM can impact on the market share of either MS-OFFICE or ...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:53:21 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:author>RK INDIA</jf:author>
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        <title>To inter-operate or not to inter-operate that is the question...</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=18854</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[MS Word supports RTF format which is open and is supported by word perfect, interleaf and others. But again, RTF is created by MS. Also there are some open source filters to filter RTF format to HTML.]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:00:15 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <title>The accidental Rosetta stone</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=18854</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Am I missing something here?  ...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:17:19 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:author>Ravi Brewster</jf:author>
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        <title>The accidental Rosetta stone</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=18854</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Did Microsoft let a Trojan horse into their Office suite when...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:40:45 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 15, 2003</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Fred Ruopp</jf:author>
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        <title>MS offers Windows-based IBM Office alternative</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=18854</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Microsoft Office XP is a good piece of software. It's not perfect, but it does a lot of things really well for a lot of people. Unless there is a really compelling value proposition (functionality, not just price) from IBM, I would not even consider...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:24:17 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 15, 2003</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Cameron Purdy</jf:author>
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        <title>I doubt it</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=18854</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<div class="jive-quote">How is this stuff supposed to be interactive and have quick response time?</div>...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:12:31 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 15, 2003</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Eduard Letifov</jf:author>
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        <title>Sorry</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=18854</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Sorry, OpenOffice.org.
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<br>It just shows you, This always happens when you point fingers.]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2003 08:45:36 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 15, 2003</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Corne Vermeulen</jf:author>
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        <title>Waist of money</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=18854</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[If they have got money to throw around why don't they throw it at OpenOffice.com?]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2003 08:32:06 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 15, 2003</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Corne Vermeulen</jf:author>
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        <title>I doubt it</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=18854</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[How is this stuff supposed to be interactive and have quick response time?...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2003 02:18:54 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 15, 2003</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Ruslan Zenin</jf:author>
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        <title>IBM to offer J2EE-based MS Office Alternative</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=18854</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[If this idea catches on, I am sure that OpenOffice.org or others could create a similar product that is could be deployed on any J2EE application server. That said, it wasn't clear from the article how much functionality is actually server based. Even if...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2003 20:19:56 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 14, 2003</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Benjamin Haefner</jf:author>
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        <title>IBM is not the answer to MSFT . we need open source...</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=18854</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[either IBM or MSFT, does it really matter as long as they are 2 big giants who want to make money .. And based on my experience with Lotus notes and other office stuff IBM provides, I m better off with MSFT than any IBM options.]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:54:13 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 14, 2003</jf:date>
        <jf:author>sean decor</jf:author>
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        <title>The important thing about this is the timesharing model.</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=18854</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[Another nail in the coffins of the retail channel and of local storage.]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:53:26 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:author>vantheip</jf:author>
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        <title>IBM to offer J2EE-based MS Office Alternative</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=18854</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[A lot of server applications need to generate documents for the clients. The way it is right now it is very difficult to generate these documents because the most popular M$ formats use properitery encoding. If IBM comes up with a standard which makes...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:39:15 -0400</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Apr 14, 2003</jf:date>
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