Comments on: Lotus Symphony Review

By: Free Word Processors : Productivity501

Free Word Processors : Productivity501 — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:02:01 +0000

[...] For a more in-depth look at Symphony, see our article entitled “Lotus Symphony Review.” [...]

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:16:21 +0000

Lotus Symphony is built upon Open Office/Star Office. Another minor issue is that after installation you might begin receiving an error that “soffice.exe failed to start, unable to locate component warning.” This is a Star Office component. Resolution is remove and reinstall Lotus Symphony.

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:57:55 +0000

@Carlos – We aren’t trying to slight OO, but Symphony is a new product that most people who have heard of Open Office probably haven’t heard of. Good suggestion though. We should probably do a review of it in the near future.

I haven’t used OO because their OS X support was a bit clunky. I think that may have changed and I need to give it a shot again.

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:55:29 +0000

Bilal – A big thank you to IBM for making such great software available!

By: Carlos

Carlos — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:03:44 +0000

How is that there is no mention to OpenOffice? It has been around for a long time, completely free and for me it is without any doubt as good as MS Office. In fact, I bet it has been downloaded much more than Simphony.

By the way, desktop publishing is a completely different thing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_publishing

By: Bilal Jaffery

Bilal Jaffery — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:58:23 +0000

Thanks for your great review and pointers on the downloading process. I will get someone to look into it.

- Bilal Jaffery
IBM Web Marketing Manager