| Lycoris ProductivityPak available, 15% the price of MS Office XP |
Dec. 13, 2002
Redmond, WA -- (press release excerpt) -- From the company that brought Desktop/LX to the $199 Walmart.com PC comes a new office suite featuring simple installation coupled with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint compatibility for Desktop/LX users. The ProductivityPak provides full office suite power at the affordable price of $49.95. Lycoris is the first software company to sell separate operating system and full office suite products for under $80 to compete directly with Microsoft Office and Windows in the general business market. This pioneering step makes Desktop/LX the primary platform for customers looking to control costs and use open products.
Businesses, schools and homes can purchase the ProductivityPak from the Lycoris Store. Lycoris will be leveraging its blue-chip retail partnerships to make the ProductivityPak available from places such as WalMart.com.
This exciting software package includes Lycoris Office, Lycoris PDASync Palm Pilot synchronization tool, and hundreds of labels and templates for 15% of the cost of Office XP. The ProductivityPak runs on Desktop/LX and provides read and write compatibility with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, plus over twenty other formats. The ProductivityPak also includes Lycoris Web Writer for creating and editing simple web pages in "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) fashion.
"Now there's an OS and office suite alternative from the same company. Desktop/LX users can buy six copies of the ProductivityPak for the price of a single copy of Office XP. We're not saying we match every feature, but most users don't use half the features in our competitors' products, so why pay for them? For most office tasks, the ProductivityPak gives you identical functionality, and you get your money's worth," states Jason Spisak, Lycoris Marketing Director. "It's another example of Desktop/LX being a less expensive platform than Windows."
Lycoris ProductivityPak includes:- ProductivityPak Installer for easy installation
- Lycoris Writer
- Lycoris Spreadsheet
- Lycoris Presents
- Lycoris Artist
- Lycoris Web Writer
- Lycoris PDASync Palm Pilot synchronization tool
- Read and write Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents
- Hundreds of labels and templates
- Mail merge
- Auto spell check and thesaurus in all Lycoris Office applications
- Integrated look and feel with simplified toolbars and hotkeys
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