IBM Lotus Symphony
Symphony sounds even better
February 2010
Existing IBM Lotus Symphony users will concede that, whilst perfectly functional, working with this free alternative to MS Office has not been without its problems. However, the investment in this product continues, and at Lotusphere 2010 IBM announced its plans to ship its next release of Symphony (version 2) before the end of June this year.
Codenamed Vienna, the new release will use the Open Office 3.x code stream and include support for the Open Document Format 1.2, OLE objects and VBA macros as well as signed plugins. Enhanced import features for Office 2007 formats, new chart features, grahic object enhancements and Java / LotsScript API's are all in the mix.
On the plan for the next 12 months are two more releases with nested tables, multi-page display in the Documents application, an increase to 1,024 in the maximum number of columns allowed for the Spreadsheet program, multi-monitor support and audio/video support in the Presentation application.
These two releases will further refine VBA macros and Office 2007 support and include document filters for the HTML file format and include enhancements to APIs for presentation and documents, templates for business content, and central management tweaks centred on preference, policy and deployment.
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