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. Although Microsoft Office remains the leading productivity suite with about 95 percent of the market by revenue, there...
[June 6, 2008, 15:02]
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]
Rivals take aim at Microsoft Office
News IBM on Tuesday announced the release of Lotus Symphony, a suite of free desktop applications based on the OpenOffice.org open-source product. The computing giant, which has been challenging Microsoft's desktop dominance for years, said that Lotus...
[September 19, 2007, 8:21]
Lotus Symphony: a first look review
Reviews Lotus Symphony is a free productivity software suite from IBM, for both Windows and Linux users. At this point, support for Lotus Symphony is limited to help provided by other users. Overall, Lotus Symphony beta appears to be a decent productivity...
[September 24, 2007, 7:34]
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]
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]
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]
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 teams with Linux firms for Microsoft-free PCs
News Separately, Canonical said it will add Lotus Symphony — based on the OpenOffice.org productivity suite — to its Ubuntu application repositories, meaning the software can be automatically downloaded and installed on Ubuntu clients.
[August 6, 2008, 12:21]
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]
Microsoft dismisses Becta criticism
News It recommended the use of free software, pointing to the successful development of Google Apps, StarOffice and the free version of IBM's Lotus Symphony. The Becta report called on PC suppliers to offer schools the choice of at least one open-source...
[January 10, 2008, 11:28]
Lotus Symphony 1.2 review
Reviews But if you just need a basic office suite that integrates well with Lotus Notes, then Symphony isn't a bad choice. As it stands, Lotus Symphony 1.2 is an aesthetically appealing office suite which is slow and light on features.
[February 9, 2009, 10:32]
Interesting times for OpenOffice
Blog Comment As it so happens, both IBM (through Lotus Symphony) and now Oracle (through their acquisition of OpenOffice.org), have weapons with which to undermine Microsoft Office. All that's needed is to reach enough of a critical mass (say 30%) to ensure...
[April 27, 2009, 9:05]
Microsoft under fire for ODF glitch in Excel
News He added that IBM's Lotus Symphony spreadsheet software, which keeps and displays unrecognised formulae, would render spreadsheets unreadable to the novice user. He added that with SP2, Excel — the Office suite's spreadsheet program — instead saves...
[May 7, 2009, 11:22]
Bottom line: no featureful implementations of ISO/IEC:26300 OpenDocument
Talkback In other words, StarOffice, Lotus Symphony, OpenOffice.org and the other clones of the latter's code base are one legal challenge away from being blackballed legally from the government procurement process globally, allowing Microsoft to step into...
[May 6, 2008, 9:39]
