Re: Lotus Symphony vs. OpenOffice -- PCTECH

Subject: Re: Lotus Symphony vs. OpenOffice
From: Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:36:45 +0200
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Dan skrev:

It says that Symphony was "developed in cooperation with OpenOffice.org", so
I am wondering if anyone has compared the two and has opinions they would
like to share. Currently, we use Open Office at home, but I am less than

I have understood Symphony (pity they reused the product name) to be an OpenOffice.org with IBM legacy file filters (allowing for reading and writing e.g. 1-2-3 documents) and a revamping of the GUI to look non-OpenOfficy.

Is there more? We use Notes, so it would be nice if it could play well with it.

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