The company has decided to name its version of the OpenOffice suite Lotus Symphony
US manufacturer IBM will offer its own version of the group's free desktop applications in a new attempt to curb Microsoft Office's dominance.
The company has decided to name its version of the OpenOffice suite Lotus Symphony, thus reviving the name of the DOS-based office suite that Lotus Development marketed in the 80s and 90s until it was acquired by IBM in 1995.
Lotus Symphony offers the same functionality as Microsoft Office. It includes three applications (Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, and Lotus Symphony Presentations) that provide similar features to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Any user can download them to their computer for free from the company's website. The Lotus Symphony suite supports many formats, including Microsoft Office and Open Document Format (ODF).
IBM had already integrated OpenOffice code into Lotus Notes 8. Now, the company plans to contribute to the Symphony-OpenOffice development effort with 35 programmers. In this way, it hopes that its increased presence in the corporate market will allow the project to achieve greater success.
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