IBM Lotus Symphony 3 - No charge productivity tools
Be free and work smart with IBM Lotus released Symphony 3, a major new version of the Open Office-based desktop productivity editors that is ...
LibreOffice 3.5 Arrives
LibreOffice is backed by companies such as Red Hat and Google. The Document Foundation was formed in September 2010 by some OpenOffice.org community members after they had a falling out with Oracle, which acquired the software through the purchase of Sun Microsystems. Oracle later stopped selling a commercial version of the suite and then submitted the code to the Apache Software Foundation.
The Document Foundation overcame significant obstacles on the way to version 3.5, "the best free office suite ever," it said in an official blog post on Tuesday.
"We inherited a 15 years old code base, where features were not implemented and bugs were not solved in order to avoid creating problems, and this -- with time -- was the origin of a large technical debt," said Caolán McNamara, a Red Hat developer and co-founder of the Document Foundation, in the post. "We had two options: a conservative strategy, which would immediately please all users, leaving the code basically unchanged, and our more aggressive feature development and code renovation path, which has created some stability problems in the short term but is rapidly leading to a completely new and substantially improved free office suite."
IBM Lotus Symphony - New Portable Office Suite - The Portable ...
At that time, IBM will distribute an IBM edition of OpenOffice , with extensions to integrate it with our other collaboration products, and with IBM support in exactly the same way that we support both embedded and stand-alone Symphony users today. (Optional) If you only wish to use Symphony from the USB drive and not to have it on your hard drive, you can uninstall Symphony using Add/Remove Programs from the Windows Control Panel. One workaround way to open document is to drag-and-drop a file icon into the main window of the running Symphony program. " option to open a document in Symphony. Symphony 3....
RT @: Great news for Office Suite accessibility as IBM contribute Lotus Symphony code to @, incl. - 
RT @: Great news for Office Suite accessibility as IBM contribute Lotus Symphony code to @, incl. - 
Great news for Office Suite accessibility as IBM contribute Lotus Symphony code to @, incl. -