Lotus Symphony at IBM
Microsoft Office is the industry's leading productivity suite and has close to 85% marketshare. The downside? It's expensive - especially for a company as large as IBM that continues to grow. At last count, IBM had 370,000 employees. Money spent on Microsoft Office licenses increases IBM's overall expenses. Launched last year, Lotus Symphony beta offers
Inside IBM, our employees are using Lotus Symphony and in some cases, removing Microsoft Office from their workstations. Later this year, the product is targeted to graduate out of beta as also release a Mac OS X client.
Enjoy the YouTube video titled "Tired of Feeding the Machine"
"productivity tools that are intuitive and easy to use and provided at no charge. Lotus Symphony puts you in charge – take control over spiraling upgrade costs, ensure access to documents well into the future with new standard file formats (ODF), get more from your current investments with support for Microsoft® Windows® and Office file types.... even extend your applications with the new Lotus Symphony developer toolkit. Lotus Symphony offers something for everyone! Read more about benefits for users, businesses, and developers"
Inside IBM, our employees are using Lotus Symphony and in some cases, removing Microsoft Office from their workstations. Later this year, the product is targeted to graduate out of beta as also release a Mac OS X client.
Enjoy the YouTube video titled "Tired of Feeding the Machine"
