Lotus Symphony named Best Desktop Application

Jeanette Barlow, Product Manager, Lotus Symphony  |  Dec 12, 2008 1:44 AM
CRN, a leading industry publication, announced its 2008 Product of the Year awards and named IBM Lotus Symphony its Product of the Year for Desktop Applications.

"The Test Center found Symphony a snap to use, and switching to Symphony after years of using Microsoft Office was painless. "

The editors at the Test Center for CRN evaluated hundreds of products in 2008 in categories that ranged from hardware to operating systems. In selecting each product of the year, the editors considered market impact and end user value. They concluded that 2008 has been a banner year in the technology sector. Lotus Symphony respresents one of these milestones.

Read the complete review here

21 Comments

  • Alfonso said on Dec 18, 2008 11:52 AM:

    He trabajado con Office 2003, Vista Home, Vista SP1, y sus diversos sorftware ofimatico. Creo que los desarrolladores de LOTUS, se merecen un enhorabuena por los resultados obtenidos en el desarrollo de esta apicacion. Aporta interesantes mejoras en el entorno de Windows, superando con creces en la barra de menus al conjunto de las demas aplicaciones del entorno. Una aportacion muy importante de IBM a la difusion de las nuevas tecnologias de la informacion al comun de la comunidad internacional.

  • Al said on Dec 23, 2008 1:09 PM:

    What ?

  • qiuyuan said on Dec 25, 2008 12:20 PM:

    qiuyuan

  • Masayuki Kanda said on Dec 28, 2008 2:24 AM:

    nice!

  • redhatnation said on Dec 30, 2008 5:02 PM:

    I am really, really liking what I see in Lotus Symphony. Providing RPMS for RHEL makes it a smooth install on our RHEL desktops at work. Symphony seems faster than OpenOffice on the same platform too!

  • jb3015 said on Jan 11, 2009 5:21 AM:

    MS Office 2007 SP1 is far better than lotus symphony, and is available for as little as $5, of course it might be a pirated copy...

  • arnel said on Jan 15, 2009 12:32 AM:

    Office 2007 sucks!

    lotus symphony and OpenOffice is very good for people and businesses who want to save cost.

  • mcjemba said on Jan 18, 2009 6:04 AM:

    Lotus Symphony needs an equation editor!!! I also need indeed:)

  • jim van damme said on Jan 20, 2009 2:39 PM:

    So if you need an equation editor, get OO.org.

    Why get more than you need?

  • DeMO said on Jan 23, 2009 2:28 PM:

    I just Tried Lotus. I am hooked. It opened things Open Office could not even open in worksheets. I am sold on this. I am changing from Open Office!

  • mahadevanrajagopalan said on Jan 27, 2009 10:30 AM:

    i cAME TO KNOWN ABOUT THIS FROM TAMIL COMPUTER

    BY K.VASANTHA KUMARI THANKS YOU

  • IngridJerner said on Jan 28, 2009 5:10 AM:

    Is it correct that Lotus do not have a equation editor? I use whole time. I like ui from screenshut but OO.org has equation editor I cannot live without.

  • :) said on Feb 5, 2009 3:59 AM:

    Documents created in Office 2007 with the newer .docx (.xlsx and .pptx) formats can't be opened under Symphony.

  • PLASTICARD said on Feb 11, 2009 9:00 AM:

    PRECISOABRIR O LOTUS MARTSUITE9

  • 1 said on Feb 15, 2009 9:21 AM:

    1

  • kinimod said on Mar 7, 2009 12:09 PM:

    I think that the Open Document Format will be the standard in future. I have already asked Bill Gates "when will MS Office have .odt" Instead of answering me, he created .docx and so!

    Basic office applications will be freeware (as we have or see).

    Lotus Symphony is very fine, but....

    OpenOffice 2.4.x-3.0.x supports x86_64 on linux (why there is no such version of Lotus Symphony avalaible?!? Thank you.

    okay, Microsoft is also okay

  • Carlos Osuna said on Mar 10, 2009 2:51 PM:

    Hey :). Of course Symphony won't open *.docx and *.pptx. The real reason is not technical but political. OD and OOX are techically similar akin to Java and C#, but neither company will concede failure in order to support the competing side.

    It's kind of a Beta v. VHS, HD DVD v. BluRay situation.

    I have yet not received any romantic, political or religious chain email in either format, which understates the uphill battle for the two of the minds and PCs of thousands of users accustomed to the familiar *.doc, *.ppt, *.pps and *.xls.

    I'm betting OOX is the HD DVD and OD is the BluRay, but only time will tell.

  • kinimod said on Mar 11, 2009 7:57 AM:

    sorry, i'd like to add that lotus symphony not work on x86_64 with openSuSE 11.x

    http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/installForum.nsf/AllByUNID/A326FA301F84441D852574FA004DE4E9?open&forum=Linux&row=3

    don't have (... the money for) SLED10 SP2 nor RHEL5.2

    so will install, CentOS5.2 x86_64, too (fine derivat of RHEL) in hope that there a nice Symphony will run!

  • kinimod said on Mar 11, 2009 8:41 AM:

    x86_64 is not supported (yet !)

    http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/installForum.nsf/0/D9E9490E6BFE1467852574FA0065BED2?open

    :(

  • HUBERT ROSSIGNOL said on Mar 13, 2009 5:55 PM:

    C'est clair comme du jus de chique !!!

  • Toby said on Mar 20, 2009 8:57 AM:

    Using "Lotus Smart Suite" since 1995 in parallel to MS-Office (MS only on job cos i have to). So i tried to get my older Lotus-stuff opened in Symphony just for looking how it works...urgh! it doesen´t work correctly. I awaited more!!!

    So with Symphony we have another MS-Office-Like Software on oo-look and feel, difficult to handle (not logical and too many clicks in comparision to Smart-Suite).

    I think, it would have been better to push Smart suite ahead!