Technology Competition
Microsoft’s competitors are strategizing and readying after years of watching the software giant rake in billions of dollars from its desktop software franchise. On Tuesday, IBM announced its release of Lotus Symphony which is a suite of free desktop applications based on the OpenOffice.org open-source product. This computing giant, which has aggressively been challenging Microsoft’s desktop dominance for ages, stated that Lotus Symphony is a standards-based alternative to Microsoft’s proprietary Office. On Monday afternoon, Yahoo also issued their stand and said that it paid $350 million to acquire Zimbra, a start-up that developed a Web-based e-mail and collaboration package comparable with Microsoft Exchange and Outlook.
Posted on December 10th, 2010 by editor
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