IBM expands Symphony office suite to Mac OS X
TG Daily - All News —
... Linux distribution. IBM also announced that future versions of Symphony will be developed entirely on the ODF 1.2 and OpenOffice 3.0 software code base. Symphony 1.2 beta, which has been available since mid-September, was released earlier today with additional support for Mac OS X for the first time. The beta phase is scheduled to last several months with general availability planned for Q1 2009. IBM also took the Ubuntu version out of beta today and released the final version of Symphony 1.2 for Ubuntu Linux 8.0.4. In addition to Mac support, the software received ...
IBM’s Symphony comes to Mac OS X
Macsimum News —
IBM’s Symphony comes to Mac OS X Posted by Dennis Sellers Apple ico Nov 5, 2008 at 1:22pm image At the OpenOffice.org (OO) Conference, IBM announced a long-term commitment to the OpenDocument Format (ODF) by unveiling a roadmap for the expansion of the free Lotus Symphony office application suite to MacIntosh, Ubuntu Linux, OpenOffice 3.0 and Microsoft Office customers. In his keynote speech, Michael Karasick, director of IBM Lotus China Development Labs, outlined the evolution of Symphony, which first appeared as a public beta on Sept. 18, 2007. The newest version is now ...
Beta Beat: IBM Lotus Symphony 1.2 now available for Mac
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... For those of you who don't want to use Microsoft Office on your Macs, there's now another free solution available -- IBM Lotus Symphony 1.2 Mac Beta. ...
IBM Readies Free Symphony Suite for the Mac: Its Open Source Legacy [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
... IBM announced today that its free office productivity software suite Lotus Symphony will be finalized in a version for the Macintosh later this month. The move will bring more competition for Microsoft Office on the Mac, and it will also represent strong competition for OpenOffice 3.0, which, ...
IBM Readies Free Symphony Suite for the Mac: Its Open Source Legacy
OStatic blogs —
... IBM announced today that its free office productivity software suite Lotus Symphony will be finalized in a version for the Macintosh later this month. The move will bring more competition for Microsoft Office on the Mac, and it will also represent strong competition for OpenOffice 3.0, which, ...
Sun's OSS Chief on OpenOffice Extensibility and Cross-Pollination [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
... . (A new Mac version of the Symphony suite is a free download here.) Among other things, Phipps reports a whopping 35 million downloads of OpenOffice 3 since October. I have to wonder whether the ultimate free producivity suite is a mashup, though. ...
Sun's OSS Chief on OpenOffice Extensibility and Cross-Pollination
OStatic blogs —
... . (A new Mac version of the Symphony suite is a free download here.) Among other things, Phipps reports a whopping 35 million downloads of OpenOffice 3 since October. I have to wonder whether the ultimate free producivity suite is a mashup, though. ...
Oracle press release speaks truth
Open Source —
... Java was highly forked before Sun finally went open source with it, and such forks remain viable. IBM offers an open source alternative to OpenOffice that works well. And have you heard the good news about ...
IBM's free, cross-platform Lotus Symphony now MS Office 2007 compatible
Download Squad —
... You may not have read much about Lotus Symphony - OpenOffice.Org casts a pretty big shadow over other free Office competitors. Like OpenOffice, IBM's cross-platform office suite is based on the Open Document format and is a very capable alternative to Micorosoft ...
Zoho rebrands as FakeOffice (not really, but it's catchy, no?)
Download Squad —
... . And when I say contend, I mean, maybe start taking notice of. There's no doubt that MS Office is still the 800 pound gorilla in the word processing, spreadsheet, and database field. But free competitors including those online applications and desktop solutions including IBM's Lotus Symphony and and the open source ...


