IBM LOTUS SYMPHONY BETA AVAILABLE AT CNR.COM.Linspire, Inc, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Calif., developer of CNR See riser card. CNR - Communication and Network Riser .com (http://www.cnr.com/), an easy-to-use, one-click digital software delivery service for desktop Linux  This article or section is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article or section in an . software, and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , the world's biggest computer-services company, has announced the immediate availability of IBM Lotus Symphony 4.0 Beta to desktop Linux users worldwide through the one-click CNR.com software delivery service. Crowned the 2008 Datamation office productivity software product of the year, Lotus Symphony is a set of intuitive, easy-to-use applications for creating, editing and sharing documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The CNR.com service is a free, easy-to-use software delivery service that currently supports Freespire 2.0, Linspire 6.0, Ubuntu A popular Linux distribution that is noted for its ease of installation and use. Based on the Debian version of Linux and introduced in 2004, Ubuntu is sponsored by Canonical Ltd., London and Montreal (www.canonical.com). 7.04 and 7.10 (32 bit) users and will soon expand to additional popular Linux distributions (http://www.cnr.com/product/symphony). "We're excited to have quickly broadened the office productivity suite choices available through CNR.com and offer our users this acclaimed application," said Larry Kettler, Linspire President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Users can now easily download and install this product in its beta phase and help provide valuable feedback while the product gets closer to its official launch." Lotus Symphony software provides the functionality users need to perform the most common document creation and editing tasks, making it ideal for business and personal projects alike. Lotus Symphony software lets users import, edit and save a variety of file formats including Microsoft Office files. Users can even convert and export documents, spreadsheets and presentations using Adobe(R) Portable Document Format (file format) Portable Document Format - (PDF) The native file format for Adobe Systems' Acrobat. PDF is the file format for representing documents in a manner that is independent of the original application software, hardware, and operating system used to create those documents. (PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. ) files. "Symphony was designed to provide freedom of choice and freedom from overpriced o·ver·price tr.v. o·ver·priced, o·ver·pric·ing, o·ver·pric·es To put too high a price or value on. overpriced Adjective costing more than it is thought to be worth Adj. commodities," said Kevin Cavanaugh, vice president, IBM Lotus Software. "Symphony and Linux are a natural fit for the growing ranks of businesses and individuals who have better things to do with their money." Lotus Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org Technology and supports the ODF (OpenDocument Format) See OpenDocument. standard, ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 26300. Lotus Symphony is immediately available to CNR users at http://www.cnr.com/product/symphony. About CNR.com CNR.com (http://www.cnr.com/) is a free one-click software delivery service designed to standardize the process and eliminate the complexity of finding, installing and managing Linux software for the most popular desktop Linux distributions, both Debian and RPM-based. A free service requiring no registration to use, CNR.com users get the most extensive free resource available anywhere for desktop Linux software. As part of CNR.com, a Premium CNR Service provides users a number of features and value, including discounts on all commercial Linux software applications available through CNR.com. Search from tens of thousands of Linux software programs, packages and libraries by title, popularity, similar software, category or function, and with just one click, install the software right on to your computer. About Linspire Linspire, Inc. (http://www.linspire.com/) was founded in 2001 to bring choice into the operating system market. The company's flagship product, the Linspire operating system, is an affordable, easy-to-use Linux-based operating system for home, school, and business users. Linspire also pioneered CNR Technology, which provides free access to all Linux software through CNR.com, allowing one-click installation from over 20,000 software programs, packages and libraries. Free to use, both free & commercial software is available at CNR.com (http://www.cnr.com/). About Lotus Symphony Lotus Symphony is a suite of software tools for creating text, spreadsheet and presentation documents -- the most frequently used desktop tools -- based on OpenOffice code. It supports the OpenDocument format (ODF), Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite formats. For more information, visit http://www.linspire.com or call 858/587-6700, ext. 183. |
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