Linked by Adam S on Mon 2nd Jun 2008 19:59 UTC
Last week, IBM unveiled the first version of their OpenOffice.org offshoot, Lotus Symphony. Symphony is aimed at professional users in a corporate environment, but brings to OpenOffice.org many UI enhancements in an attractive, single tabbed interface. Symphony 1.0 runs on Windows and Linux; while the site used to suggest a Mac version was forthcoming, there is currently no reference to a Mac native version of Symphony. The Lotus Symphony website has been updated to reflect the recent release, however, downloads are very slow at the moment "due to high demand." 
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RE: with an _old_ OpenOffice codebase, i wonder...
by ride01 on Tue 3rd Jun 2008 01:54
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Member since:2005-09-23
my boss has been unwilling to let me switch my users over to OpenOffice because of *bad* bullet support when converting MS Office documents. problems abound with his precious powerpoint presentations
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i'm dying to get my office off of MS Office.
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i'm dying to get my office off of MS Office.
Why?
Shouldn't you be helping your office run as smoothly as possible, instead of pushing your personal political agenda?
RE[2]: with an _old_ OpenOffice codebase, i wonder...
by zizban on Tue 3rd Jun 2008 02:04
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RE[2]: with an _old_ OpenOffice codebase, i wonder...
by rajj on Tue 3rd Jun 2008 03:43
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RE[2]: with an _old_ OpenOffice codebase, i wonder...
by niemau on Tue 3rd Jun 2008 05:12
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Member since:2007-06-28
Why?
Shouldn't you be helping your office run as smoothly as possible, instead of pushing your personal political agenda?
Shouldn't you be helping your office run as smoothly as possible, instead of pushing your personal political agenda?
what in comment said anything about personal politics? this is a thread about alternative office suites, in case you hadn't noticed.
and, since you questioned my intentions, it's frustrating to support many different versions of MS Office that don't completely play nice with each other. it absolutely sucks to have to explain to my boss why our consultants' copies of Office can't read the files he creates on his brand-new laptop. explaining file formats over and over is a waste of my time, quite frankly. and, it'll be very pricey to get everybody on the same version.
i think those reasons alone completely justify what i said. nothing political. don't get me wrong, i've got plenty of personal opinions regarding microsoft's product lineup. but that has nothing to do with what happens in my office. and, ultimately, if i can get all of my users on a single version of a single platform for little or no capital, that's a plus. especially if the conversion doesn't break compatibility with legacy file formats.
i feel so abused. le sigh.
RE[2]: with an _old_ OpenOffice codebase, i wonder...
by bannor99 on Tue 3rd Jun 2008 23:07
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Member since:2005-09-15
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2007-06-28
considering the fact that a significant portion of the codebase is fairly ancient OpenOffice, i am dubious of the quality of this suite. (and considering the download server is crawling, who knows when i'll find out) in particular, i'm concerned with non-ODF file format usage. so far, my boss has been unwilling to let me switch my users over to OpenOffice because of *bad* bullet support when converting MS Office documents. problems abound with his precious powerpoint presentations, especially.
anyway, i guess i'm crossing my fingers on this. i'm dying to get my office off of MS Office.