Lotus Symphony Beta 4 Has Arrived

Buzzmaster1  |  Feb 1, 2008 10:39 AM
The Beta 4 release adds many functions requested by the community including the ability to add new pages from an existing presentation into your current one. We've had great early feedback on the continued progress we have been making as well as the speed in which we are delivering the new functions.

Beta 4 is also our Developers Release. With this release we are making available a new developers toolkit, dedicated developers page on our website and a support forum for developers. All of this will enable developers to add functions to Symphony and include Symphony in their solutions. We've opened up the inherent capability in Symphony to add Eclipse based plugins that can either add standalone function or combined with the newly available API calls create new solutions.

IBM will be providing plugins on our new plugins page on this website. Today we're making available an Eclipse plugin that allows you to enter a support forum post while working in one of the editors. The plugin allows you to capture your thoughts in real time and post a cool new idea you had while you were using Lotus Symphony without leaving the Lotus Symphony application.

We're also going to allow 3rd parties who have created plugins or solutions for Lotus Symphony to post information about them on the plugins page. You'll be able to see a description of the solution and find out how to get the plugin or more detail directly from the 3rd party.

Remember to check the new plugins page frequently as we will be adding new plugins frequently.

And of course please continue to give us your feedback in our regular support forums.

58 Comments

  • Oleg Kuznetsov said on Feb 1, 2008 11:49 AM:

    wow! Thx for your work! :)

  • Fylgje said on Feb 1, 2008 1:55 PM:

    Nothing for Mac!

  • Darren Bell said on Feb 1, 2008 5:03 PM:

    Hmm, i'd love to try it on 64-bit Ubuntu. In fact all of us at work would. But we all left 32-bit behind ages ago. Come on IBM, it must be possible to produce a 64-bit .deb.

  • vanechen said on Feb 3, 2008 4:57 AM:

    Slow Slow Slow....,

    It's very slow! How can I speed up this program!

  • Andrew Tjecklowsky said on Feb 3, 2008 3:24 PM:

    Hi! I have downloaded beta 4 and try to install it on to of beta 3. During the installation I get the following error:

    "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable.

    Click OK to try again, or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package "IBM Lotus Symphony.msi" in the box below."

    I'm using Windows XP SP2 UK.

  • Kevin G. Smith said on Feb 4, 2008 12:12 AM:

    When I click (many times) on Beta 4 DOWNLOAD nothing happens.

    Regards from Kevin in Sydney []

  • Guest said on Feb 4, 2008 3:29 AM:

    Hello,Kevin,

    Did you click the Download button in Home page? Or , maybe you can direct to the link to try the download:

    http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/download/search.jsp?rs=swerplotus-lsymb3

  • Kaiwai said on Feb 4, 2008 7:57 PM:

    Come on! where is the damn Mac version!

  • Miksu said on Feb 5, 2008 5:07 AM:

    Waiting for the Mac version...

  • Putin said on Feb 5, 2008 8:31 AM:

    Mac people have enough money to buy Office

  • Bidouille said on Feb 7, 2008 3:35 AM:

    This new had been announced on the dedicated french forum:

    http://lotus-symphony.freehostia.com/smf/

  • Tom Smith said on Feb 7, 2008 3:16 PM:

    Will there be an Approach replacement?

  • Pratik said on Feb 9, 2008 5:08 AM:

    can i open office 2007 files extension (*.docx) in IBM Louts Symphony ? if yes then How?

  • Marnen Laibow-Koser said on Feb 9, 2008 1:30 PM:

    Add me to the list of people waiting for the Mac version. I'd like to see how this compares with NeoOffice.

  • andy said on Feb 9, 2008 4:20 PM:

    why spend time to a java wrapper to openoffice1 instead to support the native oo 2.0 ?

  • Jeff said on Feb 9, 2008 8:12 PM:

    when I first saw the Word Processing window I thought wow - and then:

    Proper Styles refer to preformatted text like heading 1 - they should be the most prominent option on the pane - not manual formatting like bold and italic.

    Manual formatting like italic - is now called attributes

    The biggest problem with long documents is people not using proper styles to manage the text - and manually formatting with bold, font size and so on.

  • Max Fu said on Feb 12, 2008 8:00 AM:

    I downloaded it today. It is great. But still has some shortage.

    1. Slow, open files, PPT files.

    2. Formula, I failed to find a method to input a formula.

    3. Compatibility? Not tested yet.

    It is based on OpenOffice, isn't it? IBM will do better in the final version.

  • maccam said on Feb 16, 2008 5:25 AM:

    mac version please?

  • Frank Zhu said on Feb 16, 2008 2:21 PM:

    where to download it？

  • MacDaddy said on Feb 19, 2008 4:44 PM:

    Mac Version?

  • TrueCrimson said on Feb 19, 2008 4:48 PM:

    For everybody who complains about it being slow:

    Remove the Microsoft Office programs that run in the background constantly when you install it, and then try loading Word.

    If you still aren't happy, go waste your money on a copy of Office. I will stick with OpenOffice and Symphony.

  • IwantMac said on Feb 19, 2008 9:33 PM:

    Mac version please

  • yrn said on Feb 21, 2008 1:53 PM:

    mac mac mac mac mac mac

    thanks

  • John said on Feb 24, 2008 12:03 PM:

    Can I second (third? tenth?) the call for a Mac version?

  • Paul said on Feb 25, 2008 4:01 PM:

    When is the Gold version going to be annoucned?

  • JD said on Feb 29, 2008 3:51 PM:

    Still no Mac version?

  • Klaus said on Mar 1, 2008 12:15 AM:

    I really need the Mac version! Please provide info for a release date.

  • MacSlave said on Mar 4, 2008 3:28 AM:

    Mac Version prety please! At least some info on when its coming?

  • vik said on Mar 7, 2008 11:32 AM:

    Mac version please!

    thanks

  • Gandalf said on Mar 10, 2008 2:35 PM:

    Mac version needed!

  • Jeejan Joseph said on Mar 26, 2008 12:02 AM:

    Convert Text to Column is not very user friendly as in MS Office.

    Waht to know how can we convert to column (fixed width) automatically as we can do in MS office, here i have to do click where i want column.

  • James I said on Mar 29, 2008 10:55 PM:

    Jeff:

    Don't sweat the terminology baby. "Attributes" is a Microsoft (R) term -- we're LOTUS FANS -- those of us who have been 'round since 'Version 1.0 ' know the difference. Just ask any "bean-counter " who has ever attempted to resolve the "term" differences between SIMPLY Accounting (R), DDE, and LOTUS 1-2-3 SmartSuite. One can go "bling-bling" if one interjects M into L.

    KEEP THIS STUFF UP - ITS GOT EXCELLENT POTENTIAL!!

    J-I

  • leo said on Apr 3, 2008 12:37 AM:

    mac version? when wil be available?

  • J. van Eck said on May 1, 2008 2:40 AM:

    Spellingcontrole Nederlands (NL) wordt niet ondersteund door de spellingscontrolefunctie.

    Controleer Uw installatie en installeer de gewenste taalmodule.

    Ik heb reeds twee maal geheel opnieuw geinstalleerd. Het lukt mij niet om de spellingscontrolefunctie te activeren.

    Gaarne Uw advies.

    MIjn E-mail adres is: johnvaneck@planet.nl

  • DF said on May 8, 2008 9:08 AM:

    I found recently Lotus Symphony.

    I would also like to have a MAC release...

    Thanks

  • AFR said on May 9, 2008 4:08 PM:

    Great progress on this suite but what I really care about now is that I want Symphony for the Mac. Where is the Mac version? Who cares about Windows anymore....really!

  • Go Office said on May 10, 2008 7:35 AM:

    I hate Symphony

  • Jen said on May 21, 2008 11:52 PM:

    Is their really a possible way to open an exact presentation done in Lotus Symphony Presentation with custom animation in Microsoft PowerPoint. I tried to make Presentation out of Lotus but when I opened it in Mirosoft PowerPoint, all the custom animation and slide transition didn't work. Please help.

  • sandor said on May 22, 2008 6:09 AM:

    I vote for a mac version too!

  • www.thefreemac.com said on May 22, 2008 7:48 AM:

    A Mac version would go to the top of my list any day.

  • Styx said on May 28, 2008 9:52 PM:

    <B>MAC VERSION, please !!!! </B>

  • Iain said on Jun 2, 2008 11:38 PM:

    Please tell me when the Mac version will be available????

  • dunna said on Jun 3, 2008 2:16 PM:

    one more vote for mac version!

  • Coloseo said on Jun 5, 2008 7:52 AM:

    I've just searched the beta4 download page for Lotus Symphony. Is it not availible for Windows? I've found some downloadlinks for Lotus Symphony 1, but nothing for beta. Is it closed?

    Coloseo

  • Alex said on Jun 5, 2008 10:39 AM:

    Yes, Symphony is now out of beta, and version 1.0 has been released. It has tons of improvements over the betas, so I highly recommend downloading it if you haven't already!

  • Coloseo said on Jun 5, 2008 10:57 AM:

    Thank you for your information. I love to have beta-programms, because it's not so fixed like the others, so I've tried to get this, without knowing, that 1 is newer.

    Thank you Alex

  • Anon said on Jul 23, 2008 3:39 PM:

    Come on IBM! Where is the promised Mac OS X port of Symphony?

  • Somebody from Denmark said on Jul 25, 2008 5:47 AM:

    Mac version please! You promised a beta for first half of 2008! It has been the second half for a month now - where is it?

  • And from Australia... said on Jul 29, 2008 1:13 AM:

    ...wheres my lotus symphony on OS X???

    come on, Mac version please!!!

  • Ed said on Jul 29, 2008 5:07 AM:

    Please can we have a Mac version. I have a new MacBook Pro and I don't want to have to install Microsoft Office.

  • Fitzsy said on Aug 4, 2008 8:18 AM:

    Just heard about this last week and would like to try it out - but I need a Mac version too!

  • Jon Markle said on Aug 10, 2008 9:34 AM:

    MAC version wanted here too. Thanks

  • Sigurd said on Aug 10, 2008 1:00 PM:

    This rocks!! Kicked out the MSOffice and OpenOffice from my WinXP computer after having tried it for 5 minutes.

    Now when can I get it for my MacBook??

  • jscott said on Aug 18, 2008 10:27 AM:

    Looks like my company is switching to Symphony, but there is no version for my MacBook Pro ... wasn't there supposed to be a port in Feb '08? Even a beta version would be helpful.

  • Pieter said on Oct 2, 2008 11:10 AM:

    Any news on the Mac version??

  • a Clark said on Oct 3, 2008 12:23 AM:

    I have space on my Mac just waiting for it. Would be great to have a native Mac program that can open up my huge archives of WordPro documents.

  • Mario said on Feb 16, 2009 11:55 AM:

    Please let me remove or bypass the Home page at start: the application run very slow and I prefere to open the Open document with one click.

  • Laex said on Sep 1, 2010 1:16 AM:

    Lotus Symphony Beta 4 Rocks!!

    I use a lot of Spreadsheet and some of the features i have found useful are:

    1. Ability to Merge and Split cells easily

    2. Ability to set the Borders easily

    3. Ability to paste inside merged cells

    4. Ability to insert rows in merged region

    Keep up the good work!!
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