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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Member since:2005-11-02
And another thing for a Linux installation (Ubuntu anyway). You will need to chmod the .lotus directory it creates in your home directory from root back to your username to get it to work properly.
BTW it works fine with Compiz activated after you finish the install. Nice drop shadows on the pull down menus.
Edited 2008-06-03 04:57 UTC
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2005-11-02
Yeah the same happened to me on Ubuntu Hardy, then I Googled and found out you need to switch back from Compiz to a non-compositing window manager. Worked fine after I switched back to Metacity in normal mode.
Doesn't look quite as pretty on Linux as on Windows. The scroll bars and other widgets use the old original default GTK2 theme not your GTK theme or the new Clearlooks default. The help is better it picked up my Human theme without a problem. The help is quite good, it helped me sort out my spellchecker problem (my system locale is en-Canada and it only has en-US and en-UK dictionaries and it told me exactly how to reset the the program default).
Its chart support in loading .xls files is weak, with trendlines being lost, compared to both OOo 2.4 and 3.0Beta which show them OK. However the text formatting seemed somewhat better (I haven't checked out the bullet problems). I have been playing around with it on Windows at work during the past week on the Beta4. I was thinking about trying to persuade our new IT PHB to install the free IBM Productivity Editors/Lotus Symphony that is included with the new Notes clients when we upgrade to Notes 8.5 and to drop support for MS Office except for the minority of users that really need it, i.e. those with existing documents containing complex VBA macros etc.
No wasting company money on Office 2008
Edited 2008-06-03 05:04 UTC