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.
As long as they don’t try to do any graphic-design or artistic stuff they’ll be fine…
Doesn’t Sun have that product already in OpenOffice (at openoffice.org)?
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.