IBM Lotus Symphony
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| Developer(s) | IBM |
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| Initial release | 2007 |
| Last release |
3.0.1 FixPack 2 / 29 November 2012
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| Development status | Discontinued in favour of Apache OpenOffice |
| Operating system | Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. |
| Type | Office suite, web browser |
| License | Proprietary (registerware) |
| Website | symphony |
IBM Lotus Symphony was a proprietary software suite of applications for creating, editing, and sharing text, spreadsheet, presentations, and other documents and browsing the World Wide Web. It was first distributed as commercial proprietary software, then as freeware, before IBM contributed the suite to the Apache Software Foundation in 2014 for inclusion in the free and open-source Apache OpenOffice software suite.
First released in 2007, the suite has a name similar to the 1980s MS-DOS Lotus Symphony suite, but the two software suites are otherwise unrelated. The previous Lotus application suite, Lotus SmartSuite, is also unrelated.
IBM discontinued development of Lotus Symphony in January 2012 with the final release of version 3.0.1, moving future development effort to Apache OpenOffice, and donating the source code to the Apache Software Foundation.
IBM Lotus Symphony consists of:
Each application is split into tabs.
Symphony supports the OpenDocument formats as well as the binary Microsoft Office formats. It can also export Portable Document Format (PDF) files and import Office Open XML files. Previous support for Lotus SmartSuite formats was disabled in Symphony 3.
Symphony is based on Eclipse Rich Client Platform from IBM Lotus Expeditor (the shell) and OpenOffice.org 3 (the core office-suite code).
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