Re: Microsoft Office 2010 -- MIDRANGE-L

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Those are not incriminating - yet :-)

On 5/13/10 1:04 PM, "Pete Helgren" <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yep. Office is a cash cow for Microsoft alright. I was just musing
about other folks abandoning MSO because of the presentation I did last
week at the Common Conference on using OO with DB2 for i5/OS data.

The only thing missing in OO at present in regard to DB2 for i is the
data transfer plug in that IBM provides for Excel. If they would
produce one for Calc, that would be great. I plan to move a customer
off of MSO(2003) this summer. I'll probably blog about the success (or
failure) of that when it is complete. They are an i shop so the DB2 for
i integration issue is important to them.

And no, I don't think MSO is going to go away but OO is a great
alternative in these tough economic times, especially for IBM i shops
that need office productivity tool integration with DB2 for i.

(I *tried* to keep this relevant to Midrange with the DB2 for i
references but will move to PCTECH before David posts any more
incriminating pictures about me on Facebook in retaliation)

Pete

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