IBM Lotus Symphony - Free Office Tools
Documents | Presentations | Spreadsheets
Lotus Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org Technology and supports the ODF standard, ISO 26300; you're not locked into proprietary file formats, software licensing agreements and upgrades.

• Richly-featured productivity tools that are intuitive to use and compatible with your files.
• Provided at no charge for your home, school or business.

IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ is a set of applications for creating, editing, and sharing word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Designed to handle the majority of tasks that end users perform, the Lotus Symphony tools support the Open Document Format (ODF), enabling organizations to access, use, and maintain their documents over the long term without worrying about end-of-life uncertainties or ongoing software licensing and royalty fees. By using tools that support ODF, customers are not locked into one particular vendor for their productivity tools. ODF helps provide interoperability and flexibility.

Note: For many end users and organizations, Lotus Symphony is a viable alternative to purchasing, deploying, and managing typical vendor-proprietary productivity suites.

Import, edit and save a variety of file formats including Microsoft Office files. You can even export your documents to Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF). The tools work with computers running both Microsoft Windows and Linux- environments, with support for Apple Macintosh planned for the future.

Supported Linux platforms:Windows XP, Windows Vista
Supported Linux platforms: SLED 10, RHEL 5, Redhat5

Lotus® Symphony™: More Info & Download

Please note Symphony now supports Linux, particularly Ubuntu.
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/s...52574B2001E5A03

On The Road To Mac OS X
Posted Oct 14, 2008 9:46 PM by Hai Feng Zhang

@ Mac Team Blog:
As the development manager who is responsible for porting Lotus Symphony to this platform, I observe with some pride the team's solid progress we have made since last year in order to release public version of Lotus Symphony on Mac. As a MacBookPro user, I am just as eager as you are to see Symphony on Mac.

Let me assure you that the team is very hard at work on answering this request and delivering Symphony on Mac. Please be patient a just a little longer, we need time to guarantee the product we deliver meets your expectations and our quality threshold. Right now, we are paying close attention to its stability as Lotus Symphony runs in single process on the Mac.

http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/s...52574E30009C567

Lotus Symphony™ Release 1.2 - with Mac OS X Support

Lotus Symphony release 1.2 is now available and includes Beta support for the Mac OS X platform in English.

In addition to the Mac OS support, some new enhancements to the Data Pilot support in the spreadsheet tool and have made the Ubuntu platform Generally Available. Also included some performance improvements.

For all the details [and downloads] on what's included in this release take a look at the release notes.



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Lotus Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org Technology and supports the ODF standard, ISO 26300