And eWeek had this today:
http://tinyurl.com/3cvtwj
Chuck
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From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Martin Rowe
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:26 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Free office ! IBM Lotus Symphony
ebase.
Hi Joe
As I understand it, Symphony is essentially the latest cross-platform
Eclipse based Notes client - without the Notes part! I *think* this is
the same thing as the managed workplace client thing that IBM brought
out with Notes 7.1 or thereabouts, so it has been around for a while.
There is a Linux client for Notes 7.x, though as we're still running
with 6.51 I've not been able to try it.
OOo doesn't use Eclipse at all - that seems to be IBM's direction, and
one they've been going for a while. My assumption is that they will
bring Symphony closer into line with OOo, though hopefully they will
be feeding back improvements (file import & interface issues seem to
be strong points) to upstream.
I did see some screenshots[1] of a OpenDocument file in OOo and in
Symphony, and it was clear Symphony has some way to go. OpenDocument
format came in with OOo 2.0, though they released another version of
OOo 1.x that had the backported code to handle the files.
Regards, Martin
[1] LWN (Linux weekly News) had some interesting comments on the
subject yesterday -
http://lwn.net/Articles/250452/
midrange.com
