IBM Lotus Symphony 3 - No charge productivity tools

[rex1ballard]

Does Lotus Symphony 3 with Lotus Live plug-in support co-edit? Or should that be done through the browser only?

[sluxor]

Does anyone actually still use Lotus stuff? hahahah... What a niche market.

[brainkillaKG]

@sluxor

Save the name, this has nothing to do with the earlier software suite that was called Lotus.

[rex1ballard]

@brainkillaKG Yes, the old product was Lotus Smart Suite, which was a proprietary Office suite that created proprietary documents which weren't really compatible with anything.

Lotus Symphony is based on ODF standards, including document formats, code, and interfaces, but Symphony also has support for many of the popular features of Google Docs and Office 2010 with better security.

Lotus Symphony is getting more attention - because it does provide the best of both worlds.

[rex1ballard]

@sluxor It's a nice alternative to Microsoft Office or Open Office, and you can interchange documents in ODF format. It's a free download, but if you want corporate support - you can buy the support contracts and get quantity discounts that are very competitive.

[ucheucheuche]

Bought a Windows 7 OS. Then bought the wrong Microsoft Office key!

Symphony 3 saved me from my Microsoft Office woes.

I was using Open Office 3 before, but this is easier to use in my opinion. Haven't fully tested it though, only use the word processing bits. Don't know how you guys do this free, yet thanks.

:)

[legoman762005]

i love these cool product demos

[dwbrickey]

I think it's pretty cool that there's office software out there you can get without having to pay tons of money to Microsoft.