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• Stijn said on Nov 5, 2008 2:56 AM:

  Good news!
  
  As a Windows user I can't test it, but this sure sounds nice!
  

• pvmstg said on Nov 5, 2008 7:53 AM:

  Finaly... hoping it will work better than oo... Each version of oo crash.... so... I will give it a try...
  
  Hoping to see appoach included
  

• Kroc Camen said on Nov 6, 2008 7:44 AM:

  You have no hope of this every getting anywhere, when it requires such an insane procedure to download. I fell like I've been transported back in time to the web in 2001. What's next, a download queue??
  
  Seriously - one button download.
  
  Secondly, built in update mechanism akin to Firefox. Download update in background, and install on relaunch. End of story.
  
  Thanks :)
  

• Kroc Camen said on Nov 6, 2008 9:42 AM:

  Managed to finally download and try out the OS X version - it's very nice.
  
  Beside some modest retheming being needed, all the functionality is there, and I'm very glad that I can now support Lotus Symphony users on Windows, without having to boot Windows myself, and that makes a great difference.
  

• PhyshBourne said on Nov 6, 2008 11:57 AM:

  Thank you!
  
  Thank you very much indeed!
  
  Finally I can read my old lotus-files with my Mac.
  
  Awesome!
  

• Paul Carpenter said on Nov 6, 2008 5:24 PM:

  I am really impressed - especially with the links and side note Plug-ins. The interface is nice looking although not immediatey intuitive having used MS word and OOO. It would be nice to be able to export to .doc format (for when I really have to!).
  
  Thank you for this, for an early beta it is outstanding.
  

• Rich said on Nov 6, 2008 7:57 PM:

  Thanks for this. I have waited for a year to see what IBM would do. I am just beginning, but already see the value of your uncluttered interface.
  

• Karl said on Nov 7, 2008 8:35 AM:

  Y'know, at first I was thinking that the first Mac version including alphas, betas and sometimes gammas, would arrive somewhere into 2009. Good work people.
  

• Karl said on Nov 7, 2008 9:28 AM:

  Looks the same as my Windows version, but way too slow. I have 2GB of RAM and 2.4GHz Intel Core Duo.
  

• giZmo said on Nov 8, 2008 4:30 PM:

  C'mon! No PPC support? Geeeeze! Maybe later?
  
  I was always a huge fan of Lotus software.
  
  Now that I have a PPC Mac Mini right in the kitchen, it would be nice to use this software before heading out to work. ;-)
  

• Kenneth said on Nov 8, 2008 6:23 PM:

  Seconder for 10.4 & PPC support. PPC macs are firmly in my future as far as I can see right now. I got lured in by "Mac OS X" it wasn't till I got to download that I discovered it required 10.5 and intel :o(
  

• Daniel said on Nov 8, 2008 8:15 PM:

  It seems like a great program, and I'm glad they addressed some of the issues with shortcut keys that have annoyed mac users of openoffice and neooffice to no end. Unfortunately there seems to be a problem with the spellcheck function in that it does not seem to work. This is something that definitely needs to be addressed since no one will take a word processor seriously if it does not have a functional spellchecker.
  

• SpaceCat85 said on Nov 9, 2008 12:18 PM:

  Very nice...I used to use Lotus SmartSuite before I switched over to a Mac. I like how streamlined the interface is--one of the original reasons I used to use SmartSuite was that MS Office was too bulky on the tiny monitor I used to have, and I could definitely see this sort of slimness being comfortable on my MacBook's small screen as well.
  
  One of my main suggestions would be to add a dedicated text styles section to the Properties Sidebar. I currently use Nisus Writer Pro for word processing, and the Styles portion of the tooldrawer is invaluable when I'm working with big documents. Something akin to Nisus's style view would also be a nice improvement usability-wise over the MS Office-like style editing window.
  

• James said on Nov 9, 2008 3:54 PM:

  This reads very nice, looks nice in the screen shots! But, to ignore 25 MILLION PPc Users is shortsighted.
  
  Support 10.4 and PPc and watch as millions sign up.
  
  PPc? Hello? YOUR OWN IBM G4-G5 technology! Could it be too difficult for the powerful IBM?
  
  PLEASE.
  

• oj said on Nov 10, 2008 1:11 PM:

  great! now for the ppc version...
  

• Michael said on Nov 10, 2008 6:51 PM:

  Another vote for 10.4 please
  

• 我爱吃苹果 said on Nov 11, 2008 12:52 AM:

  It's very good. I can use it with my Fedora 9 on my dell inspiron 1420.It's wonderful..
  

• Hylas Ipsum said on Nov 12, 2008 10:12 PM:

  Ahem:
  
  Dual 2.5GHz PowerPC G5.
  
  I would love to try Symphony Lotus.
  
  Another PPC lover here - I think the (full) POWER5,6,X versions of your alls chip would be really great for OS X 10.6 - 10.X. I hope Apple keeps the PPC builds happening, why wouldn't you want an OS, as nice as that to run on many platforms?
  
  I'll try this app on the Mac Pro (8-Core) Intel - sheesh.
  
  Such a shame all these PPC maxed out on 10.5.x.
  
  (yes, I've heard of Linux)
  
  I prefer to skip, rather than trudge (chip arch.).
  

• www.rtbible.org said on Nov 13, 2008 1:54 PM:

  PPC and 10.4.x PLEASE
  

• Ernie Beal said on Nov 17, 2008 7:22 AM:

  Our Mac Intel test users love it, but we need PPC support to make it useful. Otherwise, we must stay with NeoOffice/OpenOffice.
  

• Goetz E Hardtmann said on Nov 18, 2008 10:06 AM:

  I loved Lotus 123 and I used it for many, many years. I hope I will do fine with the spreadsheet in Symphony.
  
  Two questions: How can I import Lotus 123 files into Symphony?
  
  The side-bar with all the editing tools etc DISAPPEARED - How can I get it back. HELP. Goetz.
  
  ghardtmann@mindspring.com
  

• Jo said on Nov 18, 2008 3:25 PM:

  What about a PPC or Universal version? Everybody else does Universal. I stay with OO (with database support as well, but as we know no DB2 on Mac)
  

• Sébastien said on Nov 21, 2008 12:36 PM:

  Is this a joke? No OS X 10.4 support? :(
  

• Sébastien said on Nov 21, 2008 12:41 PM:

  Is this a joke? No OS X 10.4 support? :(
  

• aldrin rasdas said on Nov 22, 2008 10:07 PM:

  looks great. works... so far.
  
  One things i've noticed is that launcher icon doesn't synchronize with the launched application. That is... if you add the Symphony icon from Applications folder, and then you launched Symphony from the Dock, it creates another icon.
  

• aldrin rasdas said on Nov 22, 2008 10:14 PM:

  One thing i've noticed is that launcher icon doesn't synchronize with the launched application. That is... if you add the Symphony icon from Applications folder, and then you launched Symphony from the Dock, it creates another icon.
  

• Scott White said on Nov 24, 2008 11:18 AM:

  I've used Open Office (NeoOffice) on my Mac at home and enjoy it. My only complaint may be lack of templates and the automatic updating didn't work.
  
  I'll give this a shot too.
  

• WK said on Dec 1, 2008 8:56 AM:

  Great effort.
  
  However both the Mac & Win version felt clunky, slow to load, and not very user friendly. Just like Lotus Notes, confusing interface, clunky, and very 1990s. Anyway it is free, thanks IBM, but i prefer Google Doc.
  

• Marianus said on Dec 7, 2008 5:09 PM:

  10.4
  

• Doug McDaniel said on Dec 8, 2008 11:32 AM:

  I tried just to launch the website to download this program and my IMac 10.5.5 won't even open the site. What gives?
  

• Albo P. Fossa said on Dec 31, 2008 11:54 AM:

  10.5.6...
  
  (FWIW I had a very hard time getting to this announcement via Safari/Webkit, so I linked via Camino)
  
  1. I vary much hope that the new MacOSX version addresses startup speed problems as you have so admirably done on Windows versions! (I am an old IBM mainframe veteran and so I KNOW you can do it!)
  
  2. Now that Sun's in trouble and sinking, I hope you'll pick up the flag, and carry on the OpenOffice tradition on your own, if need be. Go IBM!
  

• BZ said on Jan 7, 2009 9:21 PM:

  Another vote in support of PPC and OSX 10.4 - for all the reasons already given by others here.
  

• Gezalov Eldar said on Mar 30, 2009 1:34 PM:

  Another vote for Mac OS X Tiger Support!
  

• charles the great said on May 10, 2009 1:56 PM:

  Every time I try to download LS my damn OS X just locks up! I thought an Imac wasn't supposed to have these problems. that's why I bought it for three times the price of a PC - and here I am still having problems and not being able to find drivers blah blah blah...
  
  Bill Gates: I'm sorry, please forgive me and let me have my W-XP back again...
  

• Pedrof said on Jun 10, 2009 2:26 PM:

  Another vote fro PPC Mac 10.4 support, I love this software in Linux (Mint 7), it is better than OpenOffice, but I need it in my mac... Please support PPC and 10.4!!!
  

• Me said on Sep 11, 2009 9:19 AM:

  I also want 10.4 (Tiger) support !!
  

• wolf_stinger said on Oct 17, 2009 8:39 AM:

  Dear Community!!!
  
  I agree all previous messages!!!!
  
  NEED !!! VERY NEED!!! ALL THE NEED PPC Support for new version Lotus Symphony!!! Please don't make ignore us, and make possible it for poor poor boy with PPC Mac !!!!
  
  THX VERY MUTCH !!!
  

• David said on Dec 20, 2009 4:51 AM:

  December 2009 and still no PPC support and still a complex download procedure.
  
  Such a shame for what could quickly become a decent alternative to Microsoft Office.
  

• zobot1 said on Jan 5, 2010 10:10 AM:

  No 10.4 PPC support - no Lotus Symphony
  

• Mikolukas said on Nov 9, 2010 4:29 PM:

  Need PPC version!
  

• Marcelo said on Nov 29, 2010 3:40 AM:

  As many mentioned... It will be nice to Have a Mac Version for 10.4 PPC.
  
  The software it is really nice.
  

• SarahJung said on Mar 2, 2011 8:21 AM:

  pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 10.4 support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i need that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  

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