____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 05 June 2008 22:16 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> ____/ Andrea on Wednesday 04 June 2008 08:43 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz pisze:
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>>>> IBM Lotus Symphony Turns 1.0
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>>>> | Open Document Format (ODF) comes of age today as IBM (NYSE: IBM)
>>>> | announces the commercial-grade, general availability of Lotus Symphony
>>>> | (http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony), a suite of free,
>>>> | ODF-based software tools for creating and sharing documents,
>>>> | spreadsheets and presentations.
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>>> This so-called "comercial grade" software is extremely slow compared to
>>> OO.o, has many bugs in GUI, and sometimes cannot open file (even in
>>> read-only mode) which is already open in OpenOffice.
>>>
>>> http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/4143/symphonytc4.jpg (errors in GUI)
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>>> In fact, Open Office 3 beta works much better than Symhony final.
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>> But it has the "IBM" logo on it. :-)
>>
>> IBM has just the brand power and it's a lot less free than OOo in this case.
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> It might appeal to those CIO types who feel that they cannot trust
> open-source, but want an interoperability-capable suite so that they can
> interwork with governments and users around the world using ODF
> compliant packages. This is something which Microsoft Office is
> unlikely to ever support satisfactorily.
Heh.
"Noone ever gets fired for buying binaies"
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