IBM launches Lotus® Symphony™ To Put A Challenge To Microsoft Office

IBM's challenge to Microsoft Office

IBM have entered into a new and competitive field of Office Business by introducing their new weapon IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ to deal with Microsoft® Office.IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ is a set of applications for creating, editing, and sharing word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.IBM® is little ahead of Microsoft by making it as a freeware software and downloadable from IBM site.

With Lotus Symphony, end users create, manage, edit, and import documents in ODF. However, Lotus Symphony tools can also import, edit, and save documents in Microsoft® Office formats or export those documents to ODF for sharing with ODF-compliant applications and solutions.

There are three applications that make up the Lotus Symphony tools: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, and Lotus Symphony Presentations. These applications offer a complete set of features and can serve as an end user's daily office productivity solution. For many customers and organizations, the Lotus Symphony tools are a viable alternative to purchasing, deploying, and managing typical vendor-proprietary productivity suites.

IBM® Lotus® Symphony™