[DC LoCo] RIP Lotus Symphony

[Jeremy Bicha]

On 31 January 2012 11:17, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/ibm-to-close-down-symphony-its-openoffice-fork/10231?alertspromo=&tag=nl.rSINGLE
>
> IBM is shelving their open source Symphony office suit, which is a
> fork of OpenOffice. Instead, all that development work will be focused
> on assisting the Apache Foundation with OpenOffice. IBM has already
> been donating Symphony code to the Apache Foundation.
>
> Its always sad to see an open source project come to an end. I learned
> how to use spreadsheets with Lotus 1-2-3 back in the day, and sold
> copies of Lotus SmartSuite for OS/2 in the 90's.

IBM Symphony was definitely not open source. IBM supposedly will be
helping Apache OpenOffice survive, but LibreOffice is where most of
the former Sun/StarOffice coders moved, and LibreOffice has the clear
backing of the Linux distributions.

Jeremy