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Download IBM Lotus Symphony without registering

WindowsLinuxby Brad Linder Sep 19th 2007

IBM Lotus Symphony
One of the main complaints we're hearing from readers about IBM's new office suite is that you have to register in order to download it. IBM released Lotus Symphony yesterday. The suite includes a word processor, spreadsheet application and PowerPoint clone. It's built on OpenOffice.org, but it has a look and feel all its own. And it's free, but you have to give away a lot of personal information in order to download Lotus Symphony from IBM's site.

Fortunately, it turns out that there are a few ways to download the program without first signing up. No, we're not talking about downloading it from a gray market BitTorrent tracker, although we're pretty sure that's another possibility.
If anyone has a good direct download link for the Linux version, let us know in the comments.
[via Cybernet]

Tags: ibm-lotus-symphony, lotus-symphony, registration

Filed under: Office, IBM, Open Source

IBM takes on Microsoft with free office software

by Brad Linder Sep 18th 2007

Lotus Symphony
A week after IBM announced that it would join the OpenOffice.org developer community, the company has launched its own standalone office application suite. Like OpenOffice.org, IBM Lotus Symphony includes a word processor, spreadsheet application, and presentation software. That shouldn't be surprising, as the software was developed using technology from the open source OpenOffice.org.

Lotus Symphony, which is currently in beta is available as a free download. This strikes yet another blow to Microsoft Office's dominance on the office space. Not only are Excel, Word, and PowerPoint facing competition from downloadable programs like OpenOffice.org and Lotus Symphony, but there's increasing pressure from online software like Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Zoho.

Update: After playing with Lotus Symphony for a few minutes, here's what we can tell you. It loads a bit slower than OpenOffice.org, but has a very attractive user interface. There's a tabbed view that lets you open multiple documents without opening multiple instances of the application, which we like. As with any new application, it takes a few moments to acclimate yourself with the toolbars and menus, but overall Lotus Symphony is powerful and pretty intuitive for anyone who's ever used Microsoft Office or OpenOffice.org.

[via The New York Times]

Tags: ibm-lotus-symphony, lotus-symphony, ms-office

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