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IBM Offers Free Office Tools

Posted by Sander_Marechal on · 5 comments
eWeek; By Darryl K. Taft 		Mail this story
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IBM has released a suite of free software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The company announced on Sept. 18 the tool set, known as Lotus Symphony, at the IBM Collaboration Summit at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. Lotus Symphony supports multiple file formats including Microsoft Office and ODF (Open Document Format), and can also output content in PDF format. "IBM is committed to opening office desktop productivity applications just as we helped open enterprise computing with Linux," Steve Mills, senior vice president of IBM Software Group, said in a statement.

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Comments (5)

phubert ·
I try to read the "full story" and I receive the message "You do not have access to EDIT this story" ... ???
zenarcher ·
Here's the link for the product website. Maybe that will help.

http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa

I downloaded it this morning and just took a look at it. Really haven't had time to play with it yet. It's slow to load when you start it, but just at a glance, looks pretty nice!
Sander_Marechal Story submitter ·
Nope, not a site bug. An editor bug(ged). The URL to the full story that was entered was teh URL for the edit page that the editors use. I fixed it.
phubert ·
depends on how one defines 'site bug' or even 'bug' ... in this case, the appropriate synonym would have been [keying] 'error' ... but 'bug' was only 3 characters... and NOW look what I've made me type!!!! :-(

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