Apr. 28, 2008
Dare to try something different?
Valleywag
Ross Chevalier issues an office suite challenge.
“So let’s agree that Office is a fine offering and proceed to look at what I believe is a viable alternative for a high percentage of knowledge workers. The offering is an open source project called OpenOffice delivered by contributors to openoffice.org.’”
IBM’s Inexpensive Notes/Domino Push Against MS
Slashdot
Deviant writes the one big gap in the Linux stack is in messaging / collaboration.
“The one competitor to MS in this space has been IBM’s Lotus Notes / Domino, which has always had the general reputation of being expensive, bloated, and unfriendly.”
Microsoft CFO Explains Why the Stock Sucks: Yahoo
Wired
Betsy Schiffman dissects recent comments by Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell.
“Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell thinks he knows why Microsoft shares have gotten hammered so hard in recent months. And that reason is Yahoo. In an internal interview today, Liddell was asked to comment on the stock’s lagging performance. Liddell boils it down to three major factors…”