lotus symphony 3.01

[mattbiernat]

Anyone tired it in here? It's actually an office suite made by IBM, being a fan of their thinkpads I decided to give it a try. As much as I never liked MS Office alternatives, I think this one is quite good. It's much more lightweight and they have a unique approach of using the widescreen format.

[ausmike]

Wow... never thought I would find someone who STILL DIE HARD IBM fan !
Lotus suite Rocks my T6o and T61 (with win7x64 Ent), still running on there since it FACTORY INSTALLs ,,,, never had one issue - even opening any of the "newer MS OFFICE " docs !

wish that OUTLOOK would die and then everyone would use Lotus Notes as email > Simply an Amazin email tool! PERIOD!

cheers

[mattbiernat]

Home come lotus 3.01 doesn't have email client? When I open it up all I get is Document, Presentation and Worksheet.

[ausmike]

Email client = SEPERATE install ( lotus notes)
Last I heard IBM = stop it being free (bummer)

You can try here , might be lucky...
http://www.ilovelotusnotes.net/

I have a Bussiness/Enterprise copy < sorry not allwoed to share that>

[mattbiernat]

Is it possible to get lotus notes integrated into the main lotus symphony suite? Or do they have to remain separate programs?

[ausmike]

hehee .. seems like am STILL answering questions about "Business Applications / Lotus Suite" even after 23yrs or working for them and now retired...

yes for ENTERPRISE customers - its all 'intergrated' as ALL-In-One !! ( nope MS didnt come up with that idea first!) IBM has had that since 1980s when they bought LOTUS ( from days of lotus 123!(me being the PM for it)....But these days , general Public , dont buy many LOTUS SUITE ( and IBM never was too keen sell to Consumer Market (thus leaving gap for MS office to exist) and even NOW i am not sure if a Consumer wanted to buy the FULLY Integrated Suite - if its even possible. Suite is generally sold as #of USER Lisc. per Enterprise...

But yes when you install LN ; it will see the rest of apps and Include itself into that LOTUS SUITE ( well it used to ) ..... which what MS is doing now on its latest release of MS office 365 - the online 'cloud' version - which is LN Enterprise Suite does by default years ago for IBM!!

>>lots of side info here but hope it makes sence and is of somehelp towards your question

[mattbiernat]

hmmm, the 90 day trial version of Notes didn't install into Lotus Symphony. It's okay thou, I don't think I will buy their client, it seems good but I don't email enough from my laptop to justify the $100 price.
On the other stide, Im still impressed about their suite. I think IBM is making a huge mistake not advertising their suite to students. I know a lot of people don't want to pay and don't need full version of MS office. Additionally I really like the way IBM places additional properties on the side instead of top like MS did. I could never get adjusted to Office 2007 Ribon UI and it looks like I will never have to!
thanks for your help about Notes.

[cjmorisson]

From what I experienced, this seems to have alot of issues. I think it should focus on Linux users as no officesuites for linux users.

[wolfman]

It's basically a dead end as well right? I thought I read that IBM won't release a version past 3.0.1. They are contributing the code to Apache and going to commit resources to Apache OpenOffice and, potentially, create an OpenOffice IBM Edition.

[ThinkRob]

It's basically a dead end as well right? I thought I read that IBM won't release a version past 3.0.1. They are contributing the code to Apache and going to commit resources to Apache OpenOffice and, potentially, create an OpenOffice IBM Edition.

It's not really a dead-end per se, just that it will turn in to Apache OpenOffice.

Really though, apart from the Symphony UI (which I *do* like) and the IBM branding (meh), there's not much reason to use whatever the Apache-based successor is. LibreOffice has far outstripped it in terms of development activity, and recent versions of LibreOffice are faster, more capable, and better-integrated than ever...

[robert213]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388582,00.asp

JUL 15 2011
...but two things happened. First Oracle, who owned OpenOffice as part of the Sun takeover, wasn't interested in maintaining what is essentially a labor of love, so it gave the whole thing to the Apache Foundation. Then this week IBM decided it wanted OpenOffice to stick around, so it handed over its entire Lotus Symphony Suite to the group and told them to use whatever they wanted.

http://www-03.ibm.com/software/lotus/sy ... e.nsf/home

MAY 8 2012
The Apache OpenOffice Project today announced the availability of Apache OpenOffice 3.4, the first release of OpenOffice under the governance of the Apache Software Foundation.

The Apache OpenOffice 3.4 release signifies an important first step in our Symphony evolution strategy. You can read more about the Symphony/ Apache OpenOffice future in the attachment.

[ThinkRob]

Yep, IBM's contributing Symphony to the Apache OpenOffice project.

I just hope that the UI gets ported to LibreOffice since that's the product with most of the community behind it.

[ausmike]

...........oops gald few more pple are ....keeping the OLD FAITH @ ROB !
am sloooowl'y foooorgettting the 'lifetime ways'........those NAVY SUITES + Crisps White shirts <so not missin em!!>
LOL
Cheers everyone !

[mattbiernat]

I don't really like open office. Too bad that IBM will no longer be developing lotus.