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Is it time to unplug frail OpenOffice's life support? Apache Project asked to mull it over

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Re: Wasn't there one of the suites....

You are correct.

IBM forked the last release of OpenOffice that was put out under SISSL (which allowed them to keep their code changes in house) and put a (surprisingly useful - truth be told) tabbed interface on it and called it Lotus Symphony.

They then weaned all of their employees off MS Office and onto it - giving it an immediate userbase of almost half a million.

However they then gave up and stopped updating it, and recommended OpenOffice as the upgrade path, where they donated the source code.

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