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Re: Good move from IBM.
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- Subject: Re: Good move from IBM.
- From: <frodo(at-nospam)sharat.co.il>
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 22:16:14 +0200 (IST)
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HM>> IBM Israel also shows goodwill - according to Captain Internet,
HM>> IBM has committed to creating a Hebrew version of
HM>> StarOffice/OpenOffice by the end of the year. Given that IBM is
HM>> also behind the Hebrew version of Mozilla, it seems that this is
HM>> indeed part of a strategy.
Definitely, the only way left to IBM and alike ot compete with MS now is
to use Linux/OSS momentum - otherwise they find themselves 10 years behind
at least. Actually, I wonder where they were 10 years ago - what prevented
Netscape/IBM from making joint move and bringing Hebrew to Netscape while
it wasn't yet too late? Rhetoric question. I have lots of them.
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