IBM releases Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Bob Sutor

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IBM just released Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2:

Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2 represents a major new advancement for our Lotus Symphony users. Based on current OpenOffice.org 3 code stream. Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2 offers loads of new features and capabilities and improved file fidelity. The Lotus Symphony team is excited to get it out to you and get your feedback.

This is a very big upgrade as is indicated by the jump from version 1.3 to version 3. The beta is available for Linux desktops, Mac OS X, and even Windows.

Also see the ZDNet blog entry “IBM launches Lotus Symphony 3 beta; Office alternatives pile up” by Larry Dignan for some screen shots.


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One Response to IBM releases Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 2

  1. Răzvan says:
    February 4, 2010 at 12:56 pm

    Great !

    I will test it for sure.

    One major limitation that prevented me to use previous versions was the lack of support for UTF-8, especially for some glyphs in Romanian language. I will test this one to see if the product is now usable in my office…

    Thanks a lot.