Lotus Symphony named Best Desktop Application
CRN, a leading industry publication, announced its 2008 Product of the Year awards and named IBM Lotus Symphony its Product of the Year for Desktop Applications.
Source: CRN
Lotus Symphony is an office productivity suite (e.g. documents, spreadsheets and presentation) that is intuitive, easy to use and provided at no charge. In 2007, IBM announced Lotus Symphony and earlier this year, version 1.0 shipped to customers. Since then, two additional versions, 1.1 and 1.2 have shipped. Lotus Symphony supports the Open Document format (ODF) ISO26300, binary Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite file formats and the ability to export to Portable Document Format (PDF).
Support for open standards is a key component of IBM's strategy and the Open Document Format (ODF) supports this strategy. Open Document Format allows the content to be separated from the editor and for productivity suites to compete based on features rather than file formats. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced ODF support in the upcoming SP2 release of Microsoft Office.
IBM CIO's preferred productivity suite is Lotus Symphony and earlier this year, began an aggressive campaign to deploy and adopt it internally. To date, over 200,000 users have adopted Lotus Symphony inside IBM.
Lotus Symphony acts much like Microsoft Office, which is good if you are looking for something to replace Office at a fraction of the cost (free!).
Source: CRN
Lotus Symphony is an office productivity suite (e.g. documents, spreadsheets and presentation) that is intuitive, easy to use and provided at no charge. In 2007, IBM announced Lotus Symphony and earlier this year, version 1.0 shipped to customers. Since then, two additional versions, 1.1 and 1.2 have shipped. Lotus Symphony supports the Open Document format (ODF) ISO26300, binary Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite file formats and the ability to export to Portable Document Format (PDF).
Support for open standards is a key component of IBM's strategy and the Open Document Format (ODF) supports this strategy. Open Document Format allows the content to be separated from the editor and for productivity suites to compete based on features rather than file formats. Earlier this year, Microsoft announced ODF support in the upcoming SP2 release of Microsoft Office.
IBM CIO's preferred productivity suite is Lotus Symphony and earlier this year, began an aggressive campaign to deploy and adopt it internally. To date, over 200,000 users have adopted Lotus Symphony inside IBM.
