[PLUG-TALK] Lotus Symphony: IBM's Free Alternative to M$Office

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Rich Shepard wrote:
>    Reuters.com has several stories today that IBM has (or will be) releasing
> its Lotus Symphony office suite at no charge as an alternative to
> Microsoft's Office. Two questions come to mind:
> 
>    1) Wasn't there a Lotus Symphony integrated application in the mid-1980s
> on DOS, along with Aston-Tate's Frameworks? Wonder if the new release is
> version 2.0 of that.
> 
>    2) The couple of news report blurbs that I saw (including the news sidebar
> on groklaw.net) mentioned that OO.o is also free of charge and has been
> available for winduhs users for several years now. Wonder why IBM didn't
> back OO.o instead of putting out Symphony?
> 
> Rich
> 
Symphony? I didn't even know that still existed! I remember that as an
unpopular expensive "office suite" built on top of Lotus 1-2-3.