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Re: [News] IBM's Symphony 1.0 Released, Platform is Choice is GNU/Linux

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____/ Andrea on Wednesday 04 June 2008 08:43 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz pisze:
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>> IBM Lotus Symphony Turns 1.0
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>> | Open Document Format (ODF) comes of age today as IBM (NYSE: IBM) announces
>> | the commercial-grade, general availability of Lotus Symphony
>> | (http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony), a suite of free,
>> | ODF-based software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheets
>> | and presentations.
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>> 
> 
> This so-called "comercial grade" software is extremely slow compared to
> OO.o, has many bugs in GUI, and sometimes cannot open file (even in
> read-only mode) which is already open in OpenOffice.
> 
> http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/4143/symphonytc4.jpg (errors in GUI)
> 
> In fact, Open Office 3 beta works much better than Symhony final.
  
But it has the "IBM" logo on it. :-)

IBM has just the brand power and it's a lot less free than OOo in this case.

- -- 
                ~~ Best of wishes

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