Alternative To Office: IBM Lotus Symphony

Smickan

I accidently clicked on the wrong link and it took me to the list of Word etc alternatives and I wanted to add this in incase anyone else is interested

http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa - IBM Lotus Symphony.

It has alternatives for Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. Each one opens in tabs so you can have a few open at once - including different programmes (Speadsheet and 3 documents etc) and it keeps the taskbar nice and clean.

superscaper

Seeing as it's based on openoffice then I think it'd make more sense to simply use Openoffice. I'm not understanding the advantage.

motorguy

Is it free?

I tried to download it, and it started asking me to register etc, plus its not like IBM to be giving anything away?

For a totally free alternative to Office, i'd recommend OpenOffice

motorguy

superscaper wrote: »

Seeing as it's based on openoffice then I think it'd make more sense to simply use Openoffice. I'm not understanding the advantage.

And you dont have to register and give your details to IBM to use OpenOffice.

superscaper

pgilc1 wrote: »

And you dont have to register and give your details to IBM to use OpenOffice.

I've gone through the FAQs and I still don't get it. The only difference I can think of in terms of the actual product is that you'll be behind with updates because Openoffice you can download it straight away but you'd have to wait for IBM to "rebrand" the update before you get a chance to download it. They've offered no explanation as to the point of their software or why you should download it instead of OO.

Smickan

It is free yes, and I did have to register - but Open Office wouldn't DL for me as it kept dying when attempting to DL on both my desktop and my laptop [Desktop XP - Laptop Vista using both firefox and XP]

I tried to email them but recieved nothing back - googled and DL'd IBM and I'm extremely happy with it - and the tabs system, I hate having a crowded taskbar.