OLE/COM is replaced by XML, Web Services, RSS/ATOM, Mashups, etc... so IBM decided to participate to the popular community OpenOffice.org ! This move is a big strategic event. According to John McCreesh, it is a true opportunity for IT industry : a new substained standardization for documents. IBM begins to give code developped for the lotus project. That will improve OpenOffice's functions and it is available right now with Lotus Symphony.