[LINK] IBM hopes open office is Symphony to your key-tapping fingers

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>> Bernard wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/19/ibm_office_symphony_open_source/
>> <snip>
>>> Just last week IBM joined the OpenOffice.org development community, 
>>> kicking off its participation by donating code it has developed for 
>>> its Lotus Notes project.
>>
>> Does this mean KOffice & Open Office may include Lotus Notes?
>>
>> I couldn't work out whether Symphony is open source or just complies 
>> with ODF.
> 
> Just complies with ODF.
> 
> I actually remember using Lotus Symphony about 20 years ago back when it 
> was a DOS program (though in a graphical mode for displaying charts and 
> the like).  Back then it was an integrated application, more like 
> Microsoft Works.  It was a spin-off of Lotus's first hugely successful 
> product, the spreadsheet 1-2-3, and retained a rather curious 
> spreadsheet-like interface even in the other modes of the application 
> such as word processing.  I presume it shares no code with the new 
> Windows and Linux version.
> 

Oh, the good old days. I was a huge fan of Lotus 1-2-3! on DOS did a great job 
of graphing large
amounts of data - I used to do daily email usage for an organisation over a
couple of years (1200+ points on X axis)

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