Lotus Symphony
IBM on recently announced the
This is to many a sign that its an attempt to make a run at Rivals Microsoft Office system market share…. Read more..
Some FAQ about the Software,
1. Very high system requirement for a Free Office Apps…
2. Not fully Compatible with Microsoft Office Apps…
3. Supports Windows XP and Vista..
Read more on FAQ Section
Quick things to note are the draw backs,
Very High system requirementof the application, as it needs full one GB of RAM to run… Compare that with Open Office which would run fine under 128 MB of RAM and even Office 2003 too… Its pretty odd to see such high requirement and who would run a free apps is expected to be low on budget and so low system configuration too like for example 3rd world education institutes or even Office computers…
Also the support for OS, No MAC, NO Windows Server or Windows 2000 support…
One can see its not fully compatible with MS office documents…
So when we have OpenOffice.org, why would one want to shift to Lotus Symphony ??
Siddharth said
am September 20 2007 @ 8:58 am
Nice brother
thx for the info
saif said
am September 25 2007 @ 4:47 pm
Thanks for the brief review.
What was IBM thinking ?? 1GB Ram LOL.
MetalheadGautham said
am February 27 2008 @ 3:18 am
hi cheeta!
this office suite is supposed to be attractive to those familiar with the ooooold lotus program(my dad was lotus fanboy… lolz). its something like ibm’s e-entry into a market it lost loooong ago.
symphoney still needs improvements, tweaks, porting and optimisations. even at the time of writing, it is in alpha state.
that 1gig ram will be an issue, but with symphoney being targeted at new computers, it shouldn’t be an issue.
for the reference, ms office 2007 can be installed in 128 mb ram 1.8 ghz p4 win xp sp2 machine.