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IBM has released IBM Lotus Symphony Beta Version, this version was release at 17th september 2007 and released with two version for linux and windows. This application embeded with 3 product.

• IBM Lotus Symphony Document.
• IBM Lotus Symphony SpreadSheet
• IBM Lotus Symphony Presentation
  

IBM Symphony based on the Open Document Format (ODF)standard-which means you're not locked into proprietary file formats, software licensing agreements and upgrades. Finally, free tools and freedom of choice!
For interface is more better than openoffice



Lotus Symphony can save documents, spreadsheets and presentations in a variety of file formats. In addition, Lotus Symphony can also convert documents, spreadsheets, and presentations types into Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Note: The following file formats are supported by the three IBM Lotus Symphony applications. OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) specifies the ODF (Open Document Format) file standards:

This's list of filetype that Lotus Symphony support

Lotus Symphony Documents supports

.doc (Microsoft)
.dot (Microsoft template)
.odt (ODF)
.ott (ODF template)
.sxw (IBM Lotus Symphony native format)
.stw (IBM Lotus Symphony native format template)
.lwp (IBM Lotus SmartSuite®)
.mwp (IBM Lotus SmartSuite template)
.rtf and .txt formats

Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets supports

.xls (Microsoft)
.xlt (Microsoft template)
.ods (ODF)
.ots (ODF template)
.sxc (IBM Lotus Symphony native format)
.stc (IBM Lotus Symphony native format template)
.123 (IBM Lotus Smartsuite)
.12m (IBM Lotus Smartsuite template)
.xml, and .csv formats

Lotus Symphony Presentations supports

.ppt (Microsoft)
.pot (Microsoft template)
.odp (ODF)
.otp (ODF template)
.prz (IBM Lotus Smartsuite)
.mas (IBM Lotus Smartsuite look template)
.smc (IBM Lotus Smartsuite content template)
.sxi (IBM Lotus Symphony native format), and .sti (IBM Lotus Symphony native format template)

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