# Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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Place your bets

IBM put 35 programmers on a free OpenOffice offering that will compete with Microsoft Office. I don't know how many programmers Microsoft has working on Office but I know they take up most, if not all, of buildings 16, 17, and 18. Each of those buildings are large three-story buildings.

IBM versus Microsoft. Free versus expensive. 35 versus hundreds (include our son James).

Hmmmm.... place your bets with your broker. I put all my chips on Microsoft.

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Joe Huffman  Tuesday, September 18, 2007 11:00:46 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [3]  |  Related posts:
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 4:06:56 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
As long as they don't try to do any graphic-design or artistic stuff they'll be fine...
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 7:22:37 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Doesn't Sun have that product already in OpenOffice (at openoffice.org)?
Ninth Stage
Thursday, September 20, 2007 7:44:01 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Yup, but that has "issues". Adding another bunch of people on the committee isn't going to give them any more focus. See this article for example.
Joe Huffman
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