IBM Lotus is playing a new tune . . . . Lotus Symphony Release 1 is available today and is FREE.
Those of us that have been around long enough will remember the Symphony product name being used many moons ago when Lotus 1-2-3 was king of the spreadsheets and Lotus Notes was making a splash.
The new product is based on Openoffice, and is also available within the Lotus Notes 8 standard client as the Personal Productivity tools. Lotus Symphony is the stand alone version of the tools without Notes. The product is however, powered by the Eclipse Framework and runs as a plug-in sharing the new interface of Notes 8, being based on Eclipse we should see the product on Windows, Mac and Linux.
If you do go and download this, be prepared to only get a Windows version. Due to a pre-requisite of OS X Leopard for the Eclipse stuff to work on the Mac properly, there is a delay in the Mac version . . . . but it is coming, really, honestly :-)
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