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Lotus Symphony Linux Beta Review

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 4, 2007

[ Thanks to Borys
Musielak
for this link. ]

“Recently I’ve laid my hands on the new IBM’s child–Lotus
Symphony (beta version). It is an office suite based on
OpenOffice.org. Lotus Symphony includes text editor, spreadsheet
and presentation tool. I’ve decided to try this new IBM wonder.

“Lotus Symphony is to be free of charge (but not free)
competitor on the office suites market for OpenOffice.org and Star
Office (and perhaps even Microsoft Office). It offers ISO26300
(Open Document Format) standard support and support for closed
formats of Microsoft and old IBM formats (used in Lotus
SmartSuite)…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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