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IBM adds Ubuntu, Red Hat support for Lotus Notes-Symphony OpenOffice Client

IBM announced at Lotusphere 2008 plans to offer its Open Collaboration Client -- which consists of Lotus Notes and Domino 8, Lotus Expeditor and Lotus Symphony apps suite -- with support for Ubuntu Linux and in a special marketing bundle with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5....

Tags: Ubuntu, Red Hat Inc., IBM Corp., Lotus Symphony, Beta 4, Lotus Symphony Office Productivity Suite, OpenOffice, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Open Source, Linux, Office Suites, Software, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-01-22

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Lotus Symphony 1.3 (Mac)

The IBM Lotus Symphony suite--which is available at no charge--can help you take back control of your IT budget while giving most users the tools they need to excel at their jobs. Designed to handle the tasks that most people perform in a professional setting, IBM Lotus Symphony tools enable...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, OpenDocument Format, Spreadsheet, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Format (ODF), Productivity, Emerging Technologies

Software downloads 2009-08-20

Microsoft Office still owns the desktop, future of StarOffice unclear

Since the Oracle acquisition of Sun, there’s been no official word yet on the road map for Star Office. Oracle says it’s vision is to deliver an integrated system from applications to disk, ostensibly a commitment to an OpenOffice.org productivity suite. Yet, that’s not a foregone conclusion. Star Office was just...

Tags: Desktop, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Sheri McLeish

Blog posts 2009-05-26

Standardizing Office Suites @ PAE Limited

Premier Auto Electric PAE Limited is a marketing and distribution company dealing in lead acid storage batteries, power backup systems and automotive parts. PAE wanted to standardize on a specific industry-standard office suite that would enable them to create complex documents, spreadsheets and presentation software. The office suite had to...

Tags: Office Suites, IBM Corp., Premier Auto Electric, Symphony, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Backups, Emerging Technologies

Case studies 2009-04-28

Will OpenOffice survive the Oracle-Sun takeover?

Will OpenOffice survive the Oracle-Sun takeover?Lotus SymphonyWhat about Lotus Symphony? It's multiplatform, free and based in OpenOffice. Altough I'm a happy MS Office 2007 user and haven't used Symphony, it looks like an option in case OO "dies". http://symphony.lotus.comRE: Will OpenOffice survive the Oracle-Sun takeover?Sun and Oracle...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

Free and freer: Lotus Symphony could be your unsung hero

Everyone knows that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Or is it? With its free productivity tools suite Symphony, IBM/Lotus is looking to shake things up a bit, putting even greater pressure on Microsoft's Office margin and besting Google and Zoho as the lowest-cost alternative....

Tags: Google Inc., IBM Corp., Lotus Symphony, Change Management, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management, Office Suites, Software, Sheri McLeish

Blog posts 2009-01-27

WebEx goes mobile on iPhone; Notes 8.5 ships on Macs

MacWorld held two important announcements for collaboration professionals, especially those interested in multidevice future: 1. Lotus announced that Notes 8.5 is shipping on Macintoshes, specifically on the new Leopard version of OS X. And its open source office productivity suite, Symphony will be available in a few...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Macintosh, WebEx Communications Inc., Collaboration, Mobile, IBM Lotus Notes, Cisco Systems Inc., WebEx Meeting Center, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Ted Schadler

Blog posts 2009-01-07

Enabling Long Standing Partnerships @ JILIT

To generate reports and release IT documents specific to Jaypee Group's various businesses, JILIT used an office productivity suite. Over time, however, this productivity suite posed a challenge: while the creation of IT documents required simple data entry skills, the cost of upgrading and maintaining the suite was exorbitant. They...

Tags: Partnership, Data Entry, IBM Corp., Business Structures, Finance

Case studies 2009-01-02

Is there anything teachers or students need that Google Apps can't do?

Is there anything teachers or students need that Google Apps can't do?Good ideaSpeaking as a grandparent and sometimes tutor of an eleven year old, I think it is an idea whose time has come. The teachers and parents need to weigh in on this though. Do all of the students...

Tags: cloud computing, Google Apps, Google Inc., students need

Discussion threads 2008-11-18

Taking a Bott beating

My colleague Ed Bott, who writes the Windows column for ZDNet, takes issue with the problem solving approach that I used when I went about migrating my friend Christine's old PC over to Vista. From the nature of the talkbacks to that original post, I would...

Tags: PC, Ed Bott, USB, Christine, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Desktops, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-09-23

Independent study advises IT planners to go OOXML

Market researchers with the Burton Group have issued a 37-page study-- not commissioned by Microsoft or any other tech vendor -- that finds Microsoft's OOXML document format to be more useful than the rival ODF format backed by Microsoft's competitors. The new study, freely downloadble (in exchange...

Tags: Burton Group, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-01-14

Notebook: IBM's Linux desktop installs; Notes evolution; Data center stats

IBM has embraced Linux as its operating system of choice, but employees are slowly working toward using it on the desktop. As of yesterday, IBM had 24,190 Linux desktop installations within the company. That's out of 372,000 IBMers. So what's the holdup?...

Tags: Desktop, Notebook, Linux Desktop, Data Center, IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Linux, IBM Corp., Linux, Data Centers, Desktops, E-mail Servers, Open Source, UNIX, Groupware, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-18

OpenDocument Foundation folds; will Microsoft benefit?

OpenDocument Foundation folds; will Microsoft benefit?Only freedom is the real loserWhile corporations whose goals are to exploit the public (using well-placed lobbying and bribes) will be winners.The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.C'est La VieCDF? But, but, butno one needs two standards, right? :-)congratulations to Mary....for...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Idealism, benefit, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, CDF

Discussion threads 2007-11-14

A new hint about what's coming (and when) in Microsoft Office 14

A new hint about what's coming and when in Microsoft Office 14Isn't it a bit soon?Office 2007 hasn't even been digested yet.Shelling out several hundred dollars every year just doesn't make sense.I suspect MS will want us to figure that out, so we become more accepting of their idea to...

Tags: HiPe, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-09-21

Symphony plays on in Notes 8

It's the morning after IBM's Lotus Collaboration Summit, at which IBM announced that the reincarnation of an ODF-compliant Lotus Symphony is integrated into Notes 8 -- as well as being offered as a free download. The media coverage conveys that IBM is trying to win over the Microsoft Office...

Tags: Microsoft Office, IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Media Coverage, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Maurene Caplan Grey

Blog posts 2007-09-19

Microsoft responds to IBM's free competitor (Lotus Symphony) to MS-Office

In case you missed it, IBM today released a free office productivity suite based on OpenOffice.org called Lotus Symphony. According to News.com's Martin Lamonica: After years of watching Microsoft rake in billions of dollars from its desktop software franchise, its competitors are pouncing. ...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice.org, IBM Corp., OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-09-18

Rivals make run at Microsoft Office

Rivals make run at Microsoft OfficeThere are a lot of things coming together at the same time to makealternatives more attractive. There is the push by governments to use open file formats, the drastically reduced need to actually PRINT documents, the increased need to share documents, and the increased quality...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Turnabout, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Projity OpenProj

Discussion threads 2007-09-18

Will IBM's Lotus Symphony succeed where other Office killers haven't?

IBM's September 18 unveiling of its IBM Lotus Symphony desktop-productivity suite -- yet another Open Document Format ODF alternative to Microsoft Office -- got me thinking about when and whether too many choices yield confusion. IBM Lotus Symphony is another OpenOffice.org variant. It is free and available...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., StarOffice, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., IBM Lotus Symphony, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-09-18

IBM's attacks Microsoft with an OpenOffice symphony

It's like a deja vu all over again, a battle of two major forces played over and over. Once again IBM is making an attempt to take down Microsoft, this time the lucrative Office franchise. Reusing an old IBM/Lotus name, Lotus Symphony is likely to meet the same fate...

Tags: OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Attack, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-18