RE: WYSIWYG Word Processing on the iSeries

["Richard Schoen" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This one looks to be really FREE.

They have done a nice job on the interfaces.  They packaged the Word
Processor, Presentations and Spreadsheet stuff separately.

Looks like they used pieces of the open office project. 

Not sure on the automation capabilities yet, but I'll know soon :-)

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subject: RE: WYSIWYG Word Processing on the iSeries

Joe Pluta wrote on 25/09/2007 15:01:16:

> IBM just released Lotus Symphony.
>
> It's free. 

Although IBM does seem to make it difficult to determine whether it is 
free as in gratis, free as in libre, or both.


> It's IBM.  It's Eclipse-based.  It does document, spreadsheets
> and presentations.
>
> It's not Open Office, but it's an interesting alternative.

Everything I've read implies that it _is_ OpenOffice, but with an pretty

RCP face.  That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I'm not sure exactly 
how different it is in terms of functionality from OpenOffice.

In either case, I think the important thing is that you can create ODF 
documents on your System i as needed, and then use some ODF-compliant 
office package to present them to your users.  I suspect there are even 
software packages out there to facilitate the ODF creation part.

HTH,
Adam