Free Office Productivity Suite

Yes folks, another one!

This is Lotus Symphony (remember Lotus 1-2-3 and Lotus Smartsuite?) Well around 2000 IBM bought them and now they are IBM Lotus.

This is a commercial grade product to rival MS office. The marketing model seems quite straightforwards: the software is free and you (corporates) pay for support licences.

It works with Windows XP and Vista and with Red Hat and SuSE Linux.

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp...cat=&x=9&y=12#

Enjoy :)

EDIT:

Press articles here:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1...491,00.htm?r=1

http://software.silicon.com/applicat...420,00.htm?r=1

But is it any good?! I think next time I need a free office solution I will check it out... Good catch

Why not just use Open Office?

Hi oofki,

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But is it any good?!

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Well, it was only put on general release (non-beta) on 30 May 2008 so it is early days. At the moment it is fairly basic, but I believe the intention is to port more functionality.

Remember that Lotus Smartsuite Millennium (9.8.2) is their flagship in this area.

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Why not just use Open Office?

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Because "IBM Lotus" looks better on your CV, and the product is supported by a major IT company which is what corporate users want.

Actually, it is a bit of a rip-off IMO when I think that the only time I have called MS Office support has been to report some bug or other, or to scrounge a free copy :D

Something to keep in mind is that it seems like Symphony is nothing more than a rebranded version of OpenOffice

I threw my Beta in the bin..

and yeh HT is correct .. was way too much like OO..


Prefer OO.. and after working with Notes for 2 years?.. IBM is Shite.. can't even write a decent support document.. would use MS before IBM rubbish..