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Sun has OpenOffice - and there is open source OpenOffice. MS of course has Office. IBM has Lotus. Now, if Lotus can be rebuilt using Java, and with Eclipse out there as the dev tool - you now have a cross platform office application that can have development done with one IDE. File formats consistent accross platforms, etc. etc.

Nice idea in a way, but who knows if it'll do the things that need to be done:

Lotus penetration back into the enterprise.
MS developers abandon .NET for Eclipse - and learn Java along the way.
Java developers picking Eclipse over other tools.
Posted by: quietLee   Posted on: 06/21/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Yawn, another wannabe...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/21/04
yes, of course  doh123 | 06/21/04
I don't like .NET  voska | 06/21/04
Isn't .net what you get when you couldn't get a .com?  B.O.F.H. | 06/21/04
lol ... good 1  oldskool | 06/21/04
Dangerous to use ZDNet as your only source of information  Richard Flude | 06/21/04
Windows desktop apps in Java ???  worknman | 06/21/04
Not exactly  quietLee | 06/21/04
Yes, in Java  Richard Flude | 06/21/04
I don't get it  rapson | 06/21/04
IBM Lock in is what  quietLee | 06/21/04
BS  Richard Flude | 06/21/04
Give it a go  Richard Flude | 06/21/04
Eclipse provides an application framework .... it manages code!  oldskool | 06/21/04
Looks interesting!  Linux_Developer | 06/21/04
Portable Application Environments  garyedwards@... | 06/22/04

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