Yahoo likely to announce the acquisition of the Open Source office
suite Zimbra for US$350 million, in cash:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/breaking-yahoo-acquires-zimbra-for-350-million/
After all the work put in to make OOXML a formal, independent
standard, Microsoft won’t agree to follow it:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/mgmt/74C665EDA37CB6F0CC2573560004F188
The European Court of First Instance upholds the EC’s decision that
Microsoft has abused its dominant market position:
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2007/09/17/microsoft-loses-appeal/
IBM Now offers its own free Office package called Symphony, based on
OpenOffice and supporting the industry standard ODF format:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/technology/18blue.html?ei=5088&en=964b86e1c626bd78&ex=1347768000&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1190148179-56vh2ZauWipxaYOkWVawNQ
And finally, landlubbers. Be ye prepared for International Talk Like
a Pirate Day? Ye'd best read this tome so as to talk proper:
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=66631&in_page_id=
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.