A first run with IBM's free office suite
Computer giant IBM yesterday released a free office suite for Windows and Linux machines called Lotus Symphony. Symphony is available from the Symphony website which requires users to register and be logged on to download the software.
Symphony is made up of three applications: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets and Lotus Symphony Presentations. Lotus Symphony supports multiple file formats including Microsoft Office and ODF (Open Document Format), and can also output content in PDF format.
Symphony is available for both Linux and Windows platform and houses much of the same technology as IBM's enterprise-grade Lotus Notes 8 product.
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I had to try the new Lotus Symphony as soon as it was available. I was really pretty disappointed. Sure, it opens and saves MSO and ODF files. However, it has almost no UI customization. I need to be able to drop a button on a toolbar and hit it when I need it. All the major players do this (WP, MSO, OOo). Symphony has the rigidity of MS Works, with the functionality of an older version of Office.
Will there be more of an OOo flavor to Symphony now that Big Blue has joined OOo team? I was expecting a more polished product than this, even at beta. And, now that Big Blue has officially gotten in the game, why try and compete using an inferior, lightweight suite?
For lots of MSO refugees -- and there are plenty after the 2007 release -- OOo remains the only truly viable free software option, and even it needs a just a little more time in the oven to be completely world-class and fully interoperable... Calc and Impress, especially. (Statistics module, anyone? I send folks to Gnumeric for that.)
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