With the introduction of Lotus Symphony age-old rivals, IBM and Microsoft, will again compete with each other. The Lotus Symphony is a free office suite, targeting Microsoft’s golden hen, MS Office. IBM reports that its new office suite offers millions of companies and consumers the chance to save hundreds of dollars on each of their Microsoft Office licenses by providing support for Microsoft Office 2007 with the newest version of Lotus Symphony, IBM’s free of charge productivity software suite. This could translate into millions of dollars in savings at many large companies that are looking for financial relief in the current economy.The ability to import Microsoft Office 2007 files into Symphony means that Microsoft Office customers can save on licensing costs by switching to Symphony while retaining access to, and easy use of, the contents of their Office files.With the introduction of Lotus Symphony age-old rivals, IBM and Microsoft, will again compete with each other. The Lotus Symphony is a free office suite, targeting Microsoft’s golden hen, MS Office. IBM reports that its new office suite offers millions of companies and consumers the chance to save hundreds of dollars on each of their Microsoft Office licenses by providing support for Microsoft Office 2007 with the newest version of Lotus Symphony, IBM’s free of charge productivity software suite. This could translate into millions of dollars in savings at many large companies that are looking for financial relief in the current economy.
The ability to import Microsoft Office 2007 files into Symphony means that Microsoft Office customers can save on licensing costs by switching to Symphony while retaining access to, and easy use of, the contents of their Office files. – Read more
IBM Lotus Symphony has a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and browser. It does not have a data base program.
However,
The new version of Symphony allows users to drag-and-drop plug-ins, extending its use to other business applications.
By the way:
Symphony is based on an older version of OpenOffice.org, although the code has been heavily modified by IBM.
I downloaded it from here.
And also Microsoft requires Genuine Windows so many people many not own it because of its cost, so it iis saving a lot of money.
I tend to favour SSuite Office’s free office suites. Their software also don’t need to run on Java or .NET, like so many open source office suites, so it makes the software very small and efficient. {www.ssuitesoft.com}