IBM Imagination office software beyond the next Call of Office-office software, office supplies - of - Business

"Open source conference, I talked about called 'Beyond Office' (beyondOffice) concept. 'Beyond Office' idea is based on knowledge of this product, we believe that since the word-processing tools generate their own functionality for users in terms of innovative features available on the rare, and no good has to meet the needs of users. "IBM Lotus software development center in China, Development Director, Dr. MichaelKarasick when in an interview that" We believe that in this Among the field, there are many things you can do. " Since last September joined the OpenOffice community, and launched the LotusSymphony OpenOffice office suite on the one hand, IBM in Office Software Series as a very impressive field. According to data released by IBM in the past 1 years time, LotusSymphony office suite has released version 7, according to incomplete statistics, 300 million worldwide Download , LotusSymphony office suite downloads in China has more than 70 million times. Held yesterda y, the 6th World Open Source Convention OpenOffice.org, IBM Symphony suite is also disclosed the road map in 2009. However, IBM's goal in this area absolutely can not just release a free replacement of Microsoft Office's office suite that simple, MichaelKarasick talked about in the interview, Dr. IBM's vision in this area and the future: "IBM hopes through the Symphony as a first step, the hope of long-term basis through the Symphony, you can build a collaborative environment for users to complete the work operation for the document, not just on paper media, is now more a focus on print media documents writing. us more hope in the future network-based environment, a lot easier for users to use different tools together, we find the appropriate content, to make appropriate reference to these elements, while allowing the content to become a real constantly updated content. It is our hope that beyond the Office of the concept, to use more innovative features to meet the needs of electronic media, many tools still more attention, to meet function in the paper written in the media. "So, IBM made beyond Office (BeyondOffice) vision. IBM believes that the current office software is not well positioned to meet the needs of users, the future office software should be in the Web environment, allowing users to communicate in a timely manner, teamwork, communication anytime, anywhere to share enterprise data updated in real time. " IBM system described vision is good and the office to look forward, however, document sharing and real-time communication also depends on the harmonization of standards. IBM and OpenOffice, is continuously promoting the ODF standard is more widely used. In this context, IBM's own research capacity has been fully reflected. Dr. MichaelKarasick: "IBM has a huge R & D team. IBM China Research Institute was established in Beijing, recently established in Shanghai China Research Institute of just division of the IBM China Research?? S hanghai, and China by Institute colleagues in one and a half Cooperation Time many of us in the "Beyond Office" cooperation among co-found the document to operate the new technology, we hope to have more research, improve our product development capabilities. " However, a standard to promote the development of a company alone is not enough, so the power needs to attract more developers to invest in the development of ODF. IBM China Software Development Center Director MichaelKarasick Lotus Dr said this: "In the OpenOffice conference announced the formation of the ODF Toolkit Union (ODFToolkitUnion), results of the work for the Union itself will go beyond our philosophy is a cornerstone of Office, we hope, and more the company's cooperation, and the Chinese IT companies and the Chinese University Research Institute to develop the corresponding ODF Toolkit products. through the open-source product development, we hope to more, better and more effective product development to p romote the next generation of Office hope to have injected some new ideas and content. "