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    IBMs Lotus Symphony Is OpenOffice in Eclipse Clothing

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    September 19, 2007
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      1IBMs Lotus Symphony Is OpenOffice in Eclipse Clothing

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      I took the Lotus Symphony beta for a spin on both Windows and Linux machines. No word yet on an OS X version, but considering that Eclipse (on which Symphonys UI is based) runs on OS X, a Mac port cant be too far away.

      2IBMs Lotus Symphony Is OpenOffice in Eclipse Clothing – Symphony Includes Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation Components

      2

      So far, theres no sign of a database component for Lotus Symphony, which is something that OpenOffice.org does offer.

      3IBMs Lotus Symphony Is OpenOffice in Eclipse Clothing – Symphony Brings a New Look to Its OpenOffice Core

      3

      Symphony sports a sidebar for displaying Text or Paragraph Properties options.

      4IBMs Lotus Symphony Is OpenOffice in Eclipse Clothing – Familiar Dialogs

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      The Line Numbering dialog box in the Lotus Symphony word processor is identical to that from OpenOffice-however, IBM has situated this and other feature dialogs in a different menu structure. In OpenOffice, this feature lives in ‘Tools–>Line Numbering.’

      5IBMs Lotus Symphony Is OpenOffice in Eclipse Clothing – Freehand Table

      5

      Beyond cosmetic differences, one of the few unique features of Lotus Symphony that I recognized was the word processors ‘Freehand Table’ option, which enabled me to rough out a table with my mouse.

      6IBMs Lotus Symphony Is OpenOffice in Eclipse Clothing – Function Sidebar

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      IBMs spreadsheet application gets the sidebar treatment as well, shown here presenting a function browser.

      7IBMs Lotus Symphony Is OpenOffice in Eclipse Clothing – Show Thumbnails

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      Another feature of Lotus Symphony that OpenOffice 2.3 appears not to offer is a thumbnail view of your open documents.

      8IBMs Lotus Symphony Is OpenOffice in Eclipse Clothing – Fair Warning

      8

      Lotus Symphony can open Microsoft Offices binary-formatted documents, but the applications helpfully warned me that saving an MS Office document in Symphony could mean a loss of formatting.

      9IBMs Lotus Symphony Is OpenOffice in Eclipse Clothing – Context-Sensitive Sidebar

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      The Lotus Symphony sidebar, shown here with the suites presentation application, boasts a measure of context-sensitivity: When I clicked into a text box, the sidebar offered text property options; when I clicked outside the text box, the sidebar switched

      10IBMs Lotus Symphony Is OpenOffice in Eclipse Clothing – Whats Your Next Office App?

      10Your choice of office productivity apps seems to be growing by the day. But is the choice really yours? Will your PC of the future be running Microsoft Office or one of its now-many rivals? Let us know at

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