IBM Lotus Symphony

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search IBM Lotus Symphony Developer(s) IBM Initial release 2007 Discontinued 3.0.1 FixPack 2 / 29 November 2012 (2012-11-29) Development status discontinued, will be replaced as Apache OpenOffice IBM Edition Operating system Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Type Office suite, web browser License Proprietary (registerware); donated under Apache 2.0 license Website www-03.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home/ Left to right: the icons for Lotus Symphony Documents, Presentations and Spreadsheets

IBM Lotus Symphony was a suite of applications for creating, editing, and sharing text, spreadsheet, presentations and other documents, browsing the world wide web, and as of 2013 is distributed as freeware. First released in 2007, the suite has a name similar to the 1980s DOS suite Lotus Symphony, but the two programs 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. The source code was sponsored to the Apache Software Foundation to get merged to OpenOffice.org, which should occur in Apache OpenOffice 4 (due for release in early 2013). IBM plans to release a 'Apache OpenOffice IBM Edition' after the release of Apache OpenOffice 4. On 27 March 2012 a first fixpack update for Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 was released. On 29 November 2012 a second fixpack update for Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 was released.