Be free and work smart with IBM Lotus released Symphony 3, a major new version of the Open Office-based desktop productivity editors that is freely available…
IBM Lotus Symphony 3 – No charge productivity tools
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So why would I want to buy Microsoft Office?
Does Lotus Symphony 3 with Lotus Live plug-in support co-edit? Or should
that be done through the browser only?
Bought a Windows 7 OS. Then bought the wrong Microsoft Office key! Symphony
3 saved me from my Microsoft Office woes. I was using Open Office 3 before,
but this is easier to use in my opinion. Haven’t fully tested it though,
only use the word processing bits. Don’t know how you guys do this free,
yet thanks. 🙂
@brainkillaKG Yes, the old product was Lotus Smart Suite, which was a
proprietary Office suite that created proprietary documents which weren’t
really compatible with anything. Lotus Symphony is based on ODF standards,
including document formats, code, and interfaces, but Symphony also has
support for many of the popular features of Google Docs and Office 2010
with better security. Lotus Symphony is getting more attention – because it
does provide the best of both worlds.
i love these cool product demos
@sluxor Save the name, this has nothing to do with the earlier software
suite that was called Lotus.
Does anyone actually still use Lotus stuff? hahahah… What a niche market.
I wish KingSoft supported Linux…
I think it’s pretty cool that there’s office software out there you can get
without having to pay tons of money to Microsoft.
@sluxor It’s a nice alternative to Microsoft Office or Open Office, and you
can interchange documents in ODF format. It’s a free download, but if you
want corporate support – you can buy the support contracts and get quantity
discounts that are very competitive.
And now the Lotus Symphony code is being worked into Apache OpenOffice,
it’ll be interesting to see what comes of this. I’d love to see the
Symphony UI with the core of LibreOffice or AOO(and all of the internal and
compatibility updates that have come through over there since they packaged
Symphony.)
@ucheucheuche They charge fees for enterprise support. Similar to how money
is made with linux; the OS is free, support is dispensed at a fee
@dwbrickey amen