[CoLoCo] IBM Lotus Symphony

[Andrew]

Umm... I don't think that is quite correct...

I believe Lotus Symphony was around before Open Office. My dad said he used
to use it a long time ago at Hewlett Packard. From what I've read/heard it
used to be the dominant/popular Office suite before Microsoft Office gained
traction, and used to be in direct competition with MS Office.

So, i think in all fairness it was/is it's own project. I just downloaded it
to see what it's like. It's certainly different. It seemed slow when
starting up, but once up it actually seemed kinda speedy. I'll tell you if i
discover anything new about it. It does say it was built on eclipse. It
actually doesn't look half bad, and is probably quite usable.

It is another free alternative to MS Office, and that deserves at least some
mention.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:04 PM, David Overcash
<funnylookinhat at gmail.com>wrote:

> I heard that Symphony is a re-branded open-office...  if that's true, then
> I fail to see the purpose in it.  Open-office is pretty darn good if you ask
> me!  :-)
>
> -David
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Andrew <keen101 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyone here use IBM's Lotus Symphony Office Suite?
>>
>> Just wanted to know if anyone here has tried it, and anything they might
>> like to say about it. (good or bad)
>>
>> I read an article today that praises it, and in turn it made me curious.
>>
>>
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/19/AR2009011901981.html
>>
>> http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home
>>
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