Last week I had to take guests to other hotels for the first time in six years. We're struggling to find rooms for visitors to the city.

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Is about IBM not fighting the open-source tide, but choosing to ride it.

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Office 12 is a very, very nice package. If they were support ODF, they'd do very well just competing on technical merits of applications. It's very nice package. That's the shame. It doesn't have to be an anti-Microsoft thing.

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It's definitely a big deal, ... Now with the [OpenOffice.org Base], although I have not evaluated it to the extent that I can call it 100 percent at functional parity with Access, the interface is just as usable as Access. It's quite nice.

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So many things to download, so little time.

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It's very suitable for enterprises or other organizations that want to take a Java approach but don't want all the overhead that associated with higher-end commercial products, or the intricacies of enterprise Java beans or the more sophisticated J2EE features.

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The product, via substantial abstraction, allows for less skilled developers to rapidly generate relatively sophisticated Web applications. The catch is that more experienced developers may find some of the abstraction unnecessary and/or undesirable.

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