IBM releases updated beta of Lotus Symphony office suite

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IBM releases updated beta of Lotus Symphony office suite

by Brad Linder Nov 14th 2007

Remember Lotus Symphony? A few months ago IBM launched its open source MS Office competitor based on OpenOffice.org code. We downloaded it, installed it, weren't particularly impressed, unloaded it and forgot about it.

Now IBM is back with a second beta release of Lotus Symphony. The application still runs pretty slow on our Windows Vista test system. There are versions available for Windows XP, Vista, and Linux. A Mac release is scheduled for next year.

Computer World reports that IBM plans to release updates every 6 to 8 weeks. The next version will include support for 23 languages. Right now, Lotus Symphony is only available in English.

As for major changes in Lotus Symphony Beta 2, we didn't notice much in the way of new features. So we're guessing most of the tweaks are under the hood bug fixes.

[via Computer World]

Tags: ibm, lotus, lotus-symphony, openoffice.org

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

pritam said 8:33AM on 12-28-2007

i wanna to download ibm lotus office suite

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