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		<title>IBM to close down Symphony, its OpenOffice fork</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a brief note, Ed Brill, an IBM product line manager, announced that IBM has likely seen its last release of Symphony, its OpenOffice fork. Later, in the blog’s discussion thread, Eric Otchet, Symphony’s product manager, seemingly confirmed that this was the end of the road for Symphony when he wrote about Apache OpenOffice the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft’s online services briefly go dark</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has not been a good month for the Internet’s core address system: the Domain Name System (DNS). First, there was a man-in-the-middle attack on numerous Web site users caused by a Turkish cracker. Now, according to Microsoft, many of its online services were disabled by a DNS failure. At first, some people thought this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IBM throws its source code and support behind OpenOffice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the companies that support OpenOffice, there were only two that didn’t support the LibreOffice fork: Oracle and IBM. I could understand Oracle. While Larry Ellison, Oracle’s CEO, didn’t really care about OpenOffice–after all Oracle essentially gave OpenOffice away to The Apache Foundation–I also know that Ellison wasn’t going to let The Document Foundation, [...]]]></description>
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