OpenOffice vs. Lotus Symphony
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| Given that OpenOffice.org is more fully-featured, makes few hardware demands
| and is under a free license, replacing it with Symphony seems pointless.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3703501
Sweet Symphony is out of tune with OOo
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| Overall, Symphony is a more usable OpenOffice.org. In fact, for a casual,
| first-time user, Lotus Symphony is nothing like OpenOffice.org. It flawlessly
| renders complex documents created with Microsoft Office, correctly
| identifying all comments and their authors, tracking all changes, and
| importing and implementing styles.
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| But while IBM might be taking the format war to Microsoft with Lotus
| Symphony, it's doing so in the worst possible manner for OpenOffice.org.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/119596
Related:
Free IBM Software Is Bid to Challenge Microsoft Office
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| The IBM package, called Symphony, can be downloaded free of charge. The home
| edition of Microsoft's Office lists for $120 on Internet retail sites. IBM
| will also give away the Symphony software to customers who buy the latest
| version of its Notes collaboration software, which costs $145 per user.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119007597680930576.html
IBM to lift lid on its OpenOffice plans next week
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| It’s not in the plan for OpenOffice 3.0 or future versions of the open source
| desktop, said John McCreesh, Marketing Project Lead of OpenOffice.org, in an
| e-mail exchange.
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| “There’s nothing about that in the IBM statement,” McCreesh said, referring
| to the possibility of contributing Notes colaboartion code to the open source
| projects. “It’s not in the roadmap. It’s much more likely that we would do
| co-operative work with one or more open-source email client projects to
| integrate OpenOffice.org more closely with their software.”
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1406
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