你听说过中国的无锡永中科技有限公司吗？我想，微软一定听过。随着永中公司的创新产品，MS Office的替代产品——永中集成Office（EIOffice）2004版，星期一在美国和中国同步上市。从此。Office软件生产市场又出现了一个强劲的对手。
永中还与日本Internet Telephone Co. Ltd合作，开发了EIOffice 日文版。Internet Telephone Co. Ltd还将负责EIOffice在日本市场的销售。
永中宣称：这一创新的桌面软件是“第一个真正的Office软件”。其设计目的和价格就是要将企业，小型公司和个人计算机用户从MS Office的垄断中解放出来。
Office生产市场近来风起云涌，出现了许多MS Office的。这些替代产品的生产商希望能从越来越多不堪微软价格重负的消费者那里获得资本。虽然，目前微软仍是软件业的龙头老大，却拒绝在他现有的基础上改变，依然像巨人一样傲视整个Office市场。但是，当地的创新厂商也由于忽略了“本土因素”——支持当地语言这一重要问题而告失败。印度的自我创新者Shakti，也惨败于MS Office，失去了与PBN 银行合作的机会。StarOffice是唯一对企业空间产生重大影响的MS Office的替代产品。感谢其具有独创性的计划，发布了被称为OpenOffice的开源的免费软件。这一方法给广大用户留下了深刻的影响，OpenOffice.org也见证了此款软件发布的一年内OpenOffice被下载720，000次的事实。这个数字至今已达百万之多。免费软件这一概念产生的效果远远超过了Sun公司的预计。目前，Sun公司已经从销售StarOffice上获得了大丰收，且以及富竞争力的价格把StarOffice明确定位为MS Office的替代产品。
EIOffice 2004由Java语言编写而成，可以在Window和Linux操作系统上运行。使用户能够最大限度地利用开源和操作系统版权。另一亮点就是将电子表格，文字处理和商业三大功能简报整合到一个的用户界面之中。
这一集成软件以一个文件格式.eio取代了多个文件格式。.eio格式可存储文本文件，工作表，图形，音频、视频和幻灯片。一个”EIOffice集成文件”可储存255个相关的电子表格，64个文本文件和64个商业简报。
Internet Telephone公司（在日本销售硬件，软件和VOIP服务器）总经理志恒先生（Shigemasa Shigaki）兴奋地说：“EIOffice保留了传统Office软件的优点的同时还提供了新功能，如Paste Link。志恒先生还说：“当用户逐渐习惯使用EIOffice的数据集成功能，并能够在文本文件, 电子表格和简报制作中进行正确的数据链接时，连微软也会模仿EIOffice的。”
EIOffice2004用数据对象储藏库系统 (Data Object Oriented Repository System (DOORS)) 来储存所有相关数据。这一正在申请专利的新技术是由永中所研发的，同时也大大加强了“Paste Link”这一新功能。这两种创新使得同步更新整个项目就像剪切和粘贴一样简单。不需要使用复杂的超链接和嵌入技术就可以链接其他Office中的数据。
例如，当用户在工作表中改变了部分财务数据，Paste Link命令将自动更新所有包含这些数据的备忘录、报告、简报、工作表、文本以及图形。
当用户转而使用EIOffice2004时不需要进行再培训。EIOffice2004可以导入和导出MS Office *.xls，*.doc以及*.ppt文件，包括图片、幻灯片、图表和自由表。用户甚至可以将Word文档直接插入已被激活的EIOffice文本文档，并对Word“Normal”模板进行拷贝，重命名，删除段落和文件格式。此外，用户还可以将EIOffice2004的文件可保存为*.pdf、*.rtf以及*.txt格式并自动压缩文件。浮点，字体，文字环绕，页面设置和其它技术确保了文件与原文件尽可能保持一致。
EIOffice2004英文版、中文版和日文版已经发布。在美国，EIOffice2004价格为$398美元， 5年内免费升级并提供无限技术支持。或$149，一年内免费升级并提供技术支持。用户可以以每年$99的价格延长为期一年的使用许可。永中还提供团体、教育、老年人、家庭和其他许可使用方式。其提供的优惠价更是及富竞争力。
英文原稿：
China To Kung Fu Microsoft's Office Monopoly
CXOToday.com By Hinesh Jethwani
Mumbai, May 20, 2004
Ever heard of China-based Wuxi Evermore Software Inc.? Well Microsoft certainly has. With the company’s innovative MS Office alternative - Evermore Integrated Office (EIOffice) 2004 - hitting market shelves in the United States and China on Monday, the Office Productivity Suite market has one more face to reckon with.
Evermore has also struck a deal to jointly develop a Japanese-language edition of EIOffice with Japan's Internet Telephone Co. Ltd. The company will also be responsible for selling the software in the Japanese market.
EIOffice is being touted as the "First real Office, designed and priced to liberate enterprises, small businesses and individual users from the MS Office monoculture,” according to the company.
The Office Productivity Suite market has seen a flurry of activity recently, with many MS Office alternatives trying to capitalize on the growing frustration of customers against Microsoft’s pressurizing price slabs. However, the Redmond giant clearly remains the numero uno, refusing to budge from its hype-propelled berth. Even local innovators have failed to bag significant deals, despite the ‘home ground factor’ of regional language support. India’s very own innovative answer to MS Office, Shakti , failed to bag a 10,000-seat mega deal with PNB Bank . StarOffice is the only MS Office alternative making a significant impact in the enterprise space, thanks to its ingenious plan of releasing an Open Source freeware version called OpenOffice first. The method has had a remarkable impact on the common users mindset, as OpenOffice.org witnessed 720,000 downloads for OpenOffice within just a year of its release, a number that has now climbed to millions. The freeware concept has definitely surpassed Sun’s expectations, and the company is now reaping the harvest with the sales of its licensed suite - StarOffice, positioned clearly as an MS Office alternative, with a very competitive price line
EIOffice 2004 is written in Java and runs on Windows and Linux, making it ideal for users moving back and forth between open-source and proprietary operating systems. Another highlight is the fact that it integrates spreadsheet, word processor and business graphics functions into one interface.
This approach to integration replaces multiple file formats with one file format -- .eio – thatstores all text, worksheets, graphics, audio, video and slides – and one “EIOffice binder” that stores up to 255 related spreadsheets, 64 text documents and 64 presentations.
Shigemasa Shigaki, president of Internet Telephone (which markets hardware, software and VOIP services in Japan), overzealously commented, "EIOffice delivers the power of a conventional Office suite, plus new capabilities, such as Paste Link. When people get accustomed to using EIOffice data integration - which makes correct links between text documents, spreadsheets and presentations - Microsoft will be imitating EIOffice.”
To organize all related data, EIOffice 2004 uses the Data Object Oriented Repository System (DOORS). This patent-pending technology developed by Evermore also powers the new “Paste Link” command, which is similar to the legendary ‘cut and paste’ technology used in MS Office.
For example, as a user changes quarterly financial results in a spreadsheet, the Paste Link command automatically applies that update to all other memos, reports, presentations, worksheets, text and graphics with the same source data.
The company claims that no extra training is needed when users make the switch to EIOffice 2004. The software imports and exports Microsoft Office xls, doc and ppt files, including graphics, slides, charts and tables. Users may even insert Word documents directly into active EIOffice text documents – and copy, rename and delete paragraph and document styles from and to Word’s “Normal” template. In addition, users may save EIOffice 2004 documents in pdf, rtf and txt formats – and automatically compress files. Floating-point, font-resolution, text-wrapping, layout and other technologies ensure that converted documents resemble the original as closely as possible.
The English and Chinese editions of EIOffice 2004 are available immediately. In the United States, EIOffice is priced at $398 with five years of free upgrades and unlimited support. Alternatively, the software is priced at $149 for one year of free upgrades and support – and users may extend this shorter license for $99 for each additional year. Corporate, educational, senior citizen, family and other licensing terms are also available. Evermore is also offering special competitive conversion pricing terms. |
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