[odf-discuss] IBM readies Lotus Notes 8

[Peter Vandenabeele]

On 8/15/07, Jean Hollis Weber <jeanweber at gmail.com> wrote:
> Russell Ossendryver wrote:
> > Notes will also incorporate additional productivity applications such as
> > OpenOffice.
> >
> > http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2196638/ibm-readies-lotus-notes
>
> This looks like another example of a reporter taking "ODF" and
> incorrectly writing "OpenOffice" in his news story. The
> announcement from IBM (referred to in the vnunet article) doesn't
> mention OOo; it says "Word processing, spreadsheets, and
> presentation applications, which support OpenDocument Format
> (ODF), Microsoft™ Office, and IBM Lotus SmartSuite(r) file formats."

Why not call it by it's official name ?

Isn't that simply "Workplace" (which I undestand is a "closed source"
IBM product, part of Notes, based on OO.o code that was forked from
the OO.o project under the SISL license) ? And yes, Workplace will
support ODF (and many other formats).

  http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1320

If I understand well, there are in the order of 120,000,000 seats of
Notes around, so if the new version of Notes will support ODF, that
will have some impact on the installed base of ODF capable tools.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Notes

HTH,

Peter