Isn't it based on Eclipse with added plugins??


On 9/20/07, Kiggundu Mukasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> 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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