IBM Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 4 is now available

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Bob Sutor

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IBM Lotus announced this morning that Beta 4 of Lotus Symphony 3 is now available. I use Lotus Symphony 3 in beta as my day-to-day office productivity suite.

Aside from any official statement regarding the wonderfulness of this beta, my IBM friends and colleagues inside the company have given it great reviews. This is the final planned beta before the v3 product release.

If you use OpenOffice or Microsoft Office, I recommend you give the free Symphony product a try. It’s available for Linux, the Mac, and even Windows.


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    One Response to IBM Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 4 is now available

    1. Felix says:
      August 26, 2010 at 4:21 pm

      Hi Bob,

      what is the license for Symphony 3?

      I understand that earlier versions were based on an old version of OpenOffice which had been released under a license that did not require changes to be distributed.

      If the current version is based on OpenOffice 3 has the situation changed?

      At the current moment with Oracle attacking Google over patents, there is unease about the possible future of OpenOffice. With a suitably open license could Symphony take over?

      Thanks