Rivals of Office step up pressure

Yesterday IBM threw its weight behind the Open Office project, a move that will give the open source productivity suite some much needed support in enterprises. And if that wasn’t enough, Google has upped the ante on Microsoft Office by teaming up with consulting company, Cap Gemini.

Large enterprises are getting increasingly comfortable with using software as a service. The success of Salesforce.com and other such offerings are indicative of these changing attitudes.