nsane.forums Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 IBM is reportedly dumping Microsoft Office in favour of its own version of Open Office, Lotus Symphony. According to reports, around 330,000 of IBM's current 360,000 employees have already started using Symphony and the rest have recently been told to stop using Microsoft Office. German economic newspaper Handelsblatt said that workers have been given 10 days to get the Microsoft software off their machines. If IBM employees really want to continue using Microsoft Office after that they will have to get their manager's approval. Lotus Symphony is an office productivity suite that incorporates huge chunks of customised Open Office. It was developed by IBM in an attempt at luring customers away from Microsoft Office, so it was always a source of embarrassment that the company didn't use the product internally. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Same as M$ workers using Google for they browsing needs... :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karachidude Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 IBM should have used their product from the start,y dint they is confusing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 agreed!on the other hand most of a "new PC/laptop2 buyers a total n00bs and since demand was such- response was less than logical... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naota Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Ahh that is bullshit. lol. I shouldn't say that... I will be interviewing with IBM for a job soon. =xWhen I worked at AOL we were forced to use AOL 9.0... ugh. lol. Then they started getting smarter and were letting us just use AIM. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIRavecavec Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Ahh that is bullshit. lol. I shouldn't say that... I will be interviewing with IBM for a job soon. =xWhen I worked at AOL we were forced to use AOL 9.0... ugh. lol. Then they started getting smarter and were letting us just use AIM. :lol:Well what to say, hope we can hear each other on SameTime if your in IBM. And got accepted so you can tell me what you think about IBM, hehe.It feels good to be an IBMer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIRavecavec Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 And this is bullshit what they say. IBM did not gived up MS Office, its just the newer images that are being created will not use anymore MS Office, just due to fact that they will not Buy more licenses. And as far as i think, does NOT mathers what products a company its using as long as it pays for them. If IBM chosed to use MS Office i don`t see any shit on it. Some news are not news or are like the "Onion News". Hehe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karachidude Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 @Atasas+!@NaotaGud luck for the interview :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted September 14, 2009 Share Posted September 14, 2009 Maybe their license for M$ Office expired :tooth: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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