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Lotus Symphony: a first look review
Reviews Lotus Symphony is a free productivity software suite from IBM, for both Windows and Linux users. Granted, that may not happen (hopefully) when Lotus Symphony is a final product. To download the free Lotus Symphony, you must register first with a...
[September 24, 2007, 7:34]
Lotus Symphony 1.2 review
Reviews Like OpenOffice.org, Lotus Symphony is free. Yes, Lotus Symphony contains a web browser — and it's painfully slow. Available in Linux OS X and Windows versions, Lotus Symphony can be downloaded from IBM's web site with a free log-in ID.
[February 9, 2009, 10:32]
Lotus Symphony gets some OOXML support
News IBM has updated Lotus Symphony with the ability to import Office 2007 documents, a feature it hopes could convince large organisations to drop Microsoft's suite altogether. IBM offers Symphony with Lotus Notes.
[June 19, 2009, 15:20]
Lotus Symphony
Downloads The IBM Lotus Symphony suite--which is available at no charge--can help you take back control of your IT budget while giving most users the tools they need to excel at their jobs. Designed to handle the tasks that most people perform in a...
[August 20, 2009, 19:24]
IBM hails Lotus Symphony landmark
News Lotus Symphony has passed the 100,000 downloads mark this week, according to IBM. For those who don't want a free, open-source package, Lotus Symphony is integrated with Lotus Notes 8, which, with 135 million licensed users worldwide according to...
[September 27, 2007, 16:11]
IBM offers Lotus with extra widgets
News IBM on Friday announced a new version of its Lotus Symphony office suite, with extra features aimed at Microsoft Office users, as part of the "ferocious competition" the company says it is in with Microsoft.
[September 11, 2009, 17:15]
IBM takes on Microsoft with ODF-based Symphony
News IBM has launched a commercially supported version of its Lotus Symphony productivity suite, ready to take on Microsoft Office. Lotus Symphony, based around the open-source OpenOffice.org, has been available as a free beta download since September...
[June 6, 2008, 15:02]
Rivals take aim at Microsoft Office
News For IBM, which makes about half of its revenue from professional services, pushing into desktop software with Lotus Symphony is a low-risk way to try to upset the balance of power using standards as a lever, said Stephen O'Grady, an analyst at...
[September 19, 2007, 8:21]
IBM teams with Linux firms for Microsoft-free PCs
News The deal with Canonical (the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu), Novell and Red Hat is designed to promote PCs running Linux alongside IBM business software, such as Lotus Notes, Lotus Symphony and Lotus Sametime.
[August 6, 2008, 12:21]
Alternatives to Microsoft Office review
Reviews And IBM just rolled out a free test version of its Windows- and Linux-compatible Lotus Symphony suite. Symphony Lotus It's no secret that Microsoft dominates the productivity suite market, but that doesn't mean it's the only way to go.
[October 1, 2007, 16:21]
message to jack
Talkback Quoting an inside source, the German economic newspaper, “Handelsblatt” reports that staff at IBM have been given ten days to change to Symphony, IBM’s in-house Lotus software. Lotus Symphony is an office software that incorporates huge chunks of...
[October 20, 2009, 10:47]
Lotus Notes to get pushy on the iPhone
News The beta version also includes version 1.3 of IBM's Lotus Symphony document, spreadsheet and presentation software. IBM is to add full automatic synching support for iPhone users of Lotus Notes. On Tuesday, the company said that Lotus Notes and...
[May 13, 2009, 17:37]
IBM tackles Microsoft on all fronts
News This week the company re-launched Lotus Symphony, which was a serious competitor to Microsoft Office, dating back to before IBM's purchase of Lotus. Symphony is integrated with Lotus Notes, IBM's long-running groupware product which is to be...
[September 21, 2007, 13:59]
Can your business work smarter?
White Papers Work smarter with IBM Lotus Symphony - a suite of applications for creating, editing, and sharing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations - available at no charge. Today, productivity is at a premium and IT budgets are at a minimum.
[July 2, 2009, 12:43]
5stars for ms.,
Talkback Quoting an inside source, the German economic newspaper, “Handelsblatt” reports that staff at IBM have been given ten days to change to Symphony, IBM’s in-house Lotus software. Lotus Symphony is an office software that incorporates huge chunks of...
[October 17, 2009, 19:18]
microsoft on way down
Talkback Quoting an inside source, the German economic newspaper, “Handelsblatt” reports that staff at IBM have been given ten days to change to Symphony, IBM’s in-house Lotus software. Lotus Symphony is an office software that incorporates huge chunks of...
[October 16, 2009, 0:33]
widows double blow
Talkback Quoting an inside source, the German economic newspaper, “Handelsblatt” reports that staff at IBM have been given ten days to change to Symphony, IBM’s in-house Lotus software. Lotus Symphony is an office software that incorporates huge chunks of...
[October 16, 2009, 0:30]
IBM launches 'Microsoft-free' virtual desktop
News Virtual Desktop uses the KVM-based Verde desktop virtualisation software from Virtual Bridges, the Ubuntu Linux operating system and IBM's Open Collaboration Client Solution Software, a suite including OpenOffice.org-based Lotus Symphony, the...
[December 5, 2008, 10:33]
Is Ray Ozzie the new Bill Gates?
News Prior to founding Iris, Ozzie worked on the development of Lotus Symphony and Software Arts' TK! Iris was sold to Lotus, which was later acquired by IBM. Bill Gates had wanted to hire Ozzie, credited with the invention of Lotus Notes, for years.
[June 16, 2006, 9:15]
Doesn't Brown's "no ISO/IEC:26300 support" criticism stand?
Talkback When I save a document in OOo, Lotus Symphony, or KOffice, I see no option to save the document as ISO/IEC:26300. I have only a single option per filetype. The problem here is that the international standard is N but none of the full-featured tools...
[May 3, 2008, 4:16]
