Lotus Symphony and Open Source

 

Lotus Symphony and Open Source
Lotus Symphony is an office program similar to Microsoft’s office program, but Symphony is a free open source program. Open Source means that its a free program and that anyone can access the source code and modify the program in any way you want. Lotus Symphony is recently released and is made by IBM, a veteran on the computer market. IBM has also made other programs such as Lotus Notes and the server interface Domino, which can be used to make a mail server for the Lotus Notes client, but it can of course be used to make other kinds of servers too.

Overall I think that Lotus Symphony is a great program both visually and technically. It has a lot of good features such as tabbing. No matter how many documents you are using at the moment you will only have one Symphony window open because all of your documents will be placed at the top so you can easily access them instantly. You can also use any MS word document so you don’t have to worry about different formats, but if you save a Symphony document as a word file you wont get all the great features that you maybe added to your document. The only big downside I can think of when I am using this program is that there isn’t any Swedish spellcheck, so I mainly use it when I am writing English documents. Hopefully they will fix this in a later version.
LINK: http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa

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As you can see the Advantages greatly outnumber the Disadvantage. Soon i am going to post a bookreview on the book: “Halo The Fall Of Reach” i hope you look forward to it!

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