IBM Lotus Symphony Anyone tried it yet?

[huntnyc]

A friend sent me this link

http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/products.jspa

anyone tried this and what do you think about it compared to Open Office or Microsoft Office? I see no database but I guess you could use a santdalone open source program for that. Also, no Outlook replacement to my knowledge but I always liked how Lotus' interface worked. Just thought I would throw this out and would love to hear your input.

Gary

[Peter2150]

Hi Gary

I was using Lotus Symphony more years ago then I care to say. But I just took a peak, and saw nothing that even inspires me to try it now, much less switch from MS Office 2007. Much as we/me loves to hate Microsoft, if you need it, Office 2007 is pretty tough to beat.

Pete

[Bob D]

Interesting.
ODF support (no surprise there).
Incorporates much of the internal suite engine of OpenOffice.
{QUOTE-> I see no database <-QUOTE}
Apparently the suite includes "Form", a table-based database management system.
This is no lightweight app:
900MB disk space minimum
1GB RAM memory minimum

You can read a scant few (mostly subjective) comments here:
http://www.betanews.com/article/IBM_Revives_Lotus_Symphony_Supports_ODF_Format/1190155387

[Mrkvonic]

Hello,
I don't understand why every would-be corporate software is always presented with sort of "marketing" data. Why can't they show the migration of krill? Or something? Why always the synergetic insipiro-globalismus?
Mrk

[ErikAlbert]

I remember Symphony at work, long time ago.
It was a combination of 5 functions : spreadsheet, graphics, textprocessing, communication, ... don't remember the rest.
In those days, we only used the spreadsheet part, the rest was very poor.

[Bob D]

FWIW, it has an interesting "look"
Screenies:
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/product_ss_wpe.jspa
http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/product_ss_sse.jspa