Lotus Symphony is a free office suite for Windows and Linux. It rivals Microsoft Office, offering business-caliber word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. And it's no longer in beta: IBM just announced Symphony's official 1.0 release. Though built on an OpenOffice core, Symphony bears little...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Lotus Symphony, IBM's new, free office productivity software, has been downloaded by more than 100,000 registered business and consumer users in its first week. The Lotus Symphony Web site ( www.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony ), which is providing user community feedback for the Symphony beta software,...
A few months ago I listed five freeware gems I use every day. Today I've got five more, and while I don't use all of them on a daily basis, I definitely can't live without them. CrossLoop For remote access to another PC, there's nothing easier than...
For the first time, IBM (NYSE: IBM) andleading Linux distributors Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat will joinforces globally with their hardware partners to deliver Microsoft-freepersonal computing choices with Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony in the onebillion-unit desktop market worldwide by 2009. Citing shifting market forces and the growing demand for...
For the first time, IBM (NYSE: IBM) andleading Linux distributors Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat will joinforces globally with their hardware partners to deliver Microsoft-freepersonal computing choices with Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony in the onebillion-unit desktop market worldwide by 2009. Citing shifting market forces and the growing demand for...
Led by strong sales of IBM (NYSE: IBM) LotusNotes and Domino 8 in the second quarter of 2008, IBM's Lotus softwarebusiness outgrew Microsoft by winning millions of customer seats worldwidein direct competition with Microsoft, aided by key wins over itsRedmond-based rival in emerging markets. IBM's emerging markets represented 18 percent...
Led by strong sales of IBM (NYSE: IBM) LotusNotes and Domino 8 in the second quarter of 2008, IBM's Lotus softwarebusiness outgrew Microsoft by winning millions of customer seats worldwidein direct competition with Microsoft, aided by key wins over itsRedmond-based rival in emerging markets. IBM's emerging markets represented 18 percent...
Open Document Format ODF comes of age today asIBM (NYSE: IBM) announces the commercial-grade, general availability ofLotus Symphony ( http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony ), a suiteof free,ODF-based software tools for creating and sharing documents, spreadsheetsand presentations. This announcement affirms IBM's commitment to evolving office productivitysoftware from static, financially draining software to a dynamic,cost-effective...
Linspire, Inc, San Diego, Calif., developer of CNR.com (http://www.cnr.com/), an easy-to-use, one-click digital software delivery service for desktop Linux software, and IBM, the world's biggest computer-services company, has announced the immediate availability of IBM Lotus Symphony 4.0 Beta to desktop Linux users worldwide through the one-click CNR.com software delivery service....
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c85965) has announced the addition of Lotus Symphony Is Back And Its Open! to their offering. Building on its 10 September 2007 announcement that it would join the OpenOffice.org (OO.o) community, on 18 September, IBM announced the general availability for download of...
M2 PRESSWIRE-14 March 2008-Research and Markets: Lotus Symphony Is Back But Building a Lotus Symphony Ecosystem Will Not Be EasyC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:17032008 Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c85966) has announced the addition of Lotus Symphony Is...
LOTUSPHERE -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announcedthat it will offer an integrated Open Collaboration Client Solution withsupport for Ubuntu, a Linux-based operating system from Canonical Ltd. thatis especially popular for desktops, laptops and thin clients. Showing strong momentum around its IBM Lotus Notes 8 and IBM LotusSymphony-based Open Collaboration Client...
Joint Marketing Initiative to Include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, IBM Lotus Open Notes and IBM Lotus Domino 8 Server ORLANDO, Fla. -- Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and IBM today announced a new marketing initiative with Lotus Open Collaboration Client Solution...
Downloaded for use in English by more than 400,000individuals at work and at home, IBM's (NYSE: IBM) Lotus Symphony suite( www.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony ) of desktop office software is nowavailable in 24 languages serving major markets worldwide. Since its release in September 2007, the English version of Lotus Symphonysoftware has received worldwide...
E-mail software from IBM Corp. will be available on Apple Inc. iPhones and iPod Touch devices under a new partnership that brings together two big rivals of Microsoft Corp. IBM plans a formal announcement of the Lotus Notes e-mail package for Apple's portable devices at its Lotusphere...
No discussion about alternatives to Microsoft Office would be complete without touching on OpenOffice -- the granddaddy of open source business applications. This year has seen a slew of new alternatives to market leader Microsoft, such as IBM's Lotus Symphony, Adobe's Buzzword and Google's Documents. However,...
The release this week of the latest version of IBM's free, open source-based suite of productivity programs, Lotus Symphony, makes one of the strongest cases yet for most people to consider moving away from Microsoft Office. In 2007, several viable alternatives to Office have emerged including: Symphony,...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the secondversion of Lotus Symphony ( www.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony ), itspopular, free desktop document software, which has now been downloaded bymore than one-quarter million registered users -- 88 percent of which areMicrosoft customers -- in its first two months. The new version of LotusSymphony, Beta...
IBM recently has spun out a free, standalone suite of productivity software included in the latest version of Lotus Notes. More on CIO.com IBM Takes Fight to Microsoft With OpenOffice Google Adds Presentations App to Hosted Suite Microsoft Puts Office...
Businesses can look forward to more choices for office software as IBM, Google and others give Microsoft a run for its money. Their newest products are more efficient, without the complicated steps once needed to convert from Microsoft's Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The...