As a matter of fact, even an recent installation of Adobe's Flash player into Debian will require either Testing or Unstable distribution resources.
Hence, in this post we cover some of our experiences during our initial installation of Symphony on 32-bit Fedora 10, code-named Fusion, and Debian Testing distribution Symphony 1.2 will not install into Debian Stable due to dependency issues satisfied by newer version of resources available in Testing and Unstable Debian distributions. Notably among those GNU/Linux platforms, we provide fee-based application deployment and maintenance support for Debian and Fedora.
From AMD and Intel x86 to Power architectures -and even modern mainframes, we follow the lead of our main Business Partner, IBM, in providing first class support for software applications executing on Red Hat, Novell SuSE, and Ubuntu, as well as other GNU/Linux distributions. Metztli Information Technology recommends IBM Lotus Symphony on GNU/Linux.Īlthough the IBM Lotus Symphony 1.2 is available and supported on closed source operating systems, like Microsoft Windows, and there has been released an Symphony beta for restricted operating systems, like the MacOS -that is based on an freeBSD implementation- we focus in Lotus Symphony on GNU/Linux here. Accordingly, once you experience the functionality, features, no format alteration worries during exchange of documents in heterogeneous platform environments, and the smooth and intuitive integrated user interface of Lotus Symphony, you should re-evaluate your proprietary office suite vendors' offerings and/or pertinent maintenance contract(s).
The ODF specification is natively supported by the fully functional, no-charge, IBM Lotus Symphony office productivity suite -as this latter is based on OpenOffice.
So if you’re looking for an excellent, free office suite, IBM Lotus Symphony a great bet.If you are responsible for an educational institution(s), library(ies), non-profit(s), government institution(s), small and medium business, and larger enterprises, you should reconsider whether your current office productivity investments will yield an closed or single vendor controlled document format -unlike that of the OASIS open document format (ODF). It doesn’t use the newest Office formats, but few people do, so it most likely won’t be a problem for you. IBM Lotus Symphony creates and opens documents in the Open Document Format standard, as well as Microsoft Office file formats. All documents open in their own tabs, which means you can have word processing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets all open in the same program at the same time in the same interface–just in different tabs. You might be surprised at what you find when you install IBM Lotus Symphony: a slick, sophisticated suite with all the bells and whistles, including a very elegant interface.
And that’s too bad, because IBM Lotus Symphony (as it’s now called) is quite a powerful office suite–and amazingly enough, anyone can download and use it for free. Today, of course, Microsoft Office is dominant, while Lotus Symphony has become largely a forgotten footnote to history.
Once upon a time, in the deep, dark recesses of computer history past, Lotus Symphony battled Microsoft Office to become the dominant Office suite.