Introduction and trial of Lotus Symphony

We saw such a piece of news a few days ago:

IBMOf36Ten thousand global employees are about to abandon MicrosoftOfficeUse your own office package insteadLotus Symphony. The message is fromIBMAn internal letter from senior management, but not yet obtainedIBM. In fact,IBMAs early2008Year6Starting to get rid of Microsoft in just one monthOffice, This year8The latest regulations at the end of the month are required10Install on all internal computers within one business dayLotus Symphony. It is expected that this migration will be completed by the end of this year. At that time, all documents of the blue giant will use the free open-sourceODFFormat. you want to install Microsoft again in the future.OfficeApproval is required first. 

Today, I suddenly realized thatLotus SymphonyIt has been installed for several months. Let's take a look at the news today. Let's introduce it to you.

It supports the Open Document Format (Open Document Format, AbbreviationODF).ODFThe biggest advantage is its openness and inheritance.ODFAfter many years, the formatted documents can still be opened for any standard-compliant office software of the latest version. At the same time,IBM Lotus Symphony 8For MicrosoftMicrosoft OfficeThe format has good compatibility. 

Lotus Symphony is not a brand new office software, its core is relatively old OpenOffice 1.x( already 3.x) , but still has basic and complete functions of documents, workbooks, and presentations, and is integrated on the same interface. They are closely integrated with Lotus Notes . All are integrated in one interface, so that I can edit documents, reports, and slides simultaneously in an application Program . Like Microsoft's Office , we need to open Work Excel PPT three programs at the same time, which I think is very good.

Next let's take a lookLotus SymphonyThree kits included in
IBM Lotus Symphony documents
ExploitationIBM Lotus Symphony documentsYou can create simple or highly structured documents, graphs, tables, and charts. It provides you with the ability to precisely control the formats of text, pages, documents, and the entire document. You can save documents in various formats. For example:

 

IBM Lotus Symphony spreadsheets
UseLotus Symphony spreadsheetsYou can perform standard and advanced spreadsheet functions to compute, analyze, and manage data. The new features make the editor more powerful. For example:

IBM Lotus Symphony presentations
UseLotus Symphony presentationsYou can create professional slides that contain charts, drawing objects, and text.Lotus Symphony presentationsMultiple templates are provided to help you quickly create professional presentations.

Lotus SymphonyGood compatibility,Can be savedOfficeFormat, such:

 

Macro and programming are also supported.

In IBM Lotus Symphony In the latest version, developers can use Lotus Symphony Provided API To expand Lotus Symphony . Because Lotus Symphony Is created in Eclipse Developers can use Eclipse Extension in the form of plug-ins Lotus Symphony , And the self-developed Lotus Symphony Plug-ins integrated Lotus Symphony . In addition, developers can also use Uno API And Lotus script . And Lotus Symphony Provides developers with a complete set SDK . SDK Systematically explained for developers Lotus Symphony Technical details and supported
Develop applications. For example:

I have not used this item too much, but it seems that there are general functions. It is estimated that it should be in line with Microsoft'sOfficeThere is still a gap. HoweverIBMThe format is open and free. It is said that it will be open-source in the future.

 

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