IBM Donates Lotus Symphony Source Code to the Apache OpenOffice Project

Buzzmaster1  |  Jul 14, 2011 2:08 PM
IBM has announced that we will be donating IBM Lotus Symphony source code to the Apache OpenOffice project. This is intended to provide this open source community with new capabilities, further accelerating the development of the OpenOffice platform. Lotus Symphony source code includes enhancements in usability, performance and accessibility, ensuring data is easier to view, read and manipulate from any type of editing tool, and for people with vision impairments.

What does this mean for IBM Lotus Symphony?

IBM Lotus Symphony will be enhanced by the collaborative innovation of the open community and we are expanding our efforts in Lotus Symphony. This donation of code is part of IBM's commitment to Lotus Symphony and open technologies. Our goal with this donation is to contribute to the strong open community working to develop future document technologies.

IBM Lotus Symphony is, and will remain, an important product to IBM and its clients. IBM will continue to work on Lotus Symphony pushing the evolution of document technologies both internally and in collaboration with the Apache OpenOffice community. In fact, we are in the process of expanding the Lotus Symphony team working on development of open document technologies.

13 Comments

  • Ted Abrek said on Jul 14, 2011 8:47 PM:

    where can I see the source code?

  • Anonymous said on Jul 14, 2011 10:41 PM:

    @Ted Abrek:

    I think, that for now it's just an announcement, so it will be available a bit later

  • mjk said on Jul 15, 2011 10:05 AM:

    Well, given that Symphony has a nice UI but is a bit lacking "under the hood" compared to OO.o and LO, this seems like a good move. Hopefully the OO team at Apache will port the Symphony UI to the current engine and there will finally be an open source productivity package that looks like it belongs to the 21st century...

  • Andy Brown said on Jul 15, 2011 8:01 PM:

    Need to do some more reading:

    [1] http://markmail.org/message/ynxrqf2iuwd3b2gm?q=+list:org.apache.incubator.ooo-dev&page=7

    [2] http://markmail.org/message/tu3dn7xfoqzfs73j?q=+list:org.apache.incubator.ooo-dev&page=7

    These messages from the Apache mailing list gives more light on the matter.

  • Keith Bainbridge said on Jul 17, 2011 5:04 PM:

    If by improving the UI you mean making it clean & simple, good idea. If you mean adding fancy icons instead of simple text buttons at least give us the option to turn this OFF easily. I might be older but I can't stand pictures that say nothing instead of a word that says everything.

  • George said on Jul 17, 2011 8:08 PM:

    No! What you want to do is donate to the LIbreOffice team. If you've been keeping up with tech news at all, you, IBM, would realize Oracle are dogs. LibreOffice is the new king of FOSS office suites.

  • George said on Jul 17, 2011 8:11 PM:

    never mind

  • Petr said on Jul 18, 2011 2:19 AM:

    Giving honor and bows to dead king :) Good for public relations maybe.

  • anonymous said on Jul 18, 2011 4:56 AM:

    I hope GPL license or similar, and integrated completely to really improve LibreOffice. I don't like OpenOffice, always bothering with license issues.

  • Robert Paulson said on Jul 18, 2011 10:38 PM:

    If anyone would like to buy the domain name symphony.net let me know.

    rptek@aol.com

  • dick koekemoer said on Aug 13, 2011 4:10 AM:

    Where do I find the fixpack?

  • veronica said on Apr 16, 2012 7:53 PM:

    me encantaria usar este programa

  • vero said on Apr 16, 2012 7:57 PM:

    me encantaria usar este sistema ya que me facilitaria en muchos aspectos los ejercicios requeridos aparte, es el que vamos a utilizar en esta semana.

    me imagino que son programas de publicacion, diseno y graficos
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