http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=42476
IBM ANNOUNCED in New York City yesterday that it will offer a
complete set of office productivity applications as free downloads.
Branded as IBM Lotus Symphony, the office suite will include word
processing, spreadsheet and presentation programs.
Implementing the XML based file and display formats of the ISO
standard Open Document Format (ODF) specification, Lotus Symphony
will be based upon software written by the Open Office coalition,
which IBM has joined along with Sun, Google and others. Last week IBM
announced that it has dedicated 35 developers to contributing code to
Open Office.
The rest of IBM's Lotus line of email, messaging and work group
collaboration applications, led by its flagship Lotus Notes product,
are proprietary. IBM has invested significant resouces in Lotus for
over a decade, ever since it bought Lotus for $3.5 billion in 1995.
But its Lotus SmartSuite line of office applications failed to gain
traction in attempting to challenge Microsoft Office during the late
1990s.
By offering its flavor of Open Office under the Lotus banner, IBM may
be hinting that it will add features to Open Office to integrate its
applications with preexisting Lotus software.................
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