IBM to offer free word processing, office software
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IBM on Monday said it would start  offering free word processing and other office software,  joining a growing group of companies with free applications  challenging a core Microsoft Corp product.
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IBM Corp. Monday introduced new services, dubbed Open Client, designed to make it easier for customers to run its Lotus collaboration software on a mixture of Windows and Linux desktop operating systems.
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Microsoft Corp.  is planning to release a new version of its Office program for small businesses that handles accounting and customer management tasks, the world's largest software maker said on Friday.
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Looking to outdo rival Microsoft, IBM plans to ship a new bundle of development tools that can simplify how software gets built.
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IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are teaming up to offer a free data-search tool for businesses, a quirky move challenging Google Inc. and other corporate-search specialists in a blossoming market.
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InfoWorld - OpenMake Software plans next week to offer process automation software free for software development teams.
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IBM on Thursday will announce the release of a free tools bundle for Eclipse to make it easier to deploy Java applications on Linux.
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IBM has signed on 100 software companies to use software from its Workplace initiative, a plan to gain ground in desktop software.
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By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 8--IBM said Thursday that it is giving health authorities and others around the world expanded access to free software it partly developed in San Jose to help track bird flu and other infectious diseases.
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Microsoft Corp. has begun providing free tools so government organizations can better share technological information, in a move it says is aimed at helping cash-strapped customers save money.
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International Business Machines Corp  said on Tuesday that it will offer its Lotus email and  collaboration products as a service that customers can access  through a Web browser.
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Corel Corp. has released a free service pack to WordPerfect Office X3 that updates the business suite so it's compatible with Windows Vista.
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U.S. patent leader IBM said late  on Monday it plans to donate 500 patents for free use by  software developers, marking a major shift of intellectual  property strategy for the world's top computer maker and a  challenge to the high-tech industry.
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IBM on Monday will unveil free developer resources for Cloudscape, a small-footprint, Java-based database that the company recently contributed to the Apache Software Foundation as an open source project.
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InfoWorld - IBM wants to encourage more of its business partners to use its open-source, low-end application server and free entry-level database by giving those companies access to IBM sales, marketing and technical expertise at no charge.
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The companies plan to release the server-side application on Wednesday as a free download aimed at companies that haven't tried out enterprise search due to cost and complexity concerns.
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Google is finalizing the integration of Docs & Spreadsheets to enhance its free services and software offerings.