IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista

[saahne]

Originally Posted by john_hudson

No Symphony is actually the name of Lotus' original attempt at an Office suite from the 1980s and IBM is using it for the combination of Lotus (spreadsheet), Lotus Words (formally Samni Ami wordprocessor), Lotus Notes (IBM's own office integration software) and ? possibly ? Lotus Approach (database).

It now uses the OASIS file formats as default but otherwise it has no connection with OpenOffice.

That's not correct. It's built on OpenOffice--they just reused the name of the earlier software.

Form IBM/Lotus in their own words:

Lotus Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org Technology and supports the ODF standard, ISO 26300

[saahne]

Originally Posted by else_where

Having to use Notes in Windows is bad. Having to use Notes in linux is just a kick in the cajones. I hate Notes. Notes has contributed to Outlook/Exchange domination, just by it's awfulness....We're on Exchange now at work, so I no longer have to deal with Notes.
KV

That's what happened with us as well. We were using Lotus ccMail then moved to Domino/Notes and then to Exchange/Outlook. I no fan of Exchange/Outlook but much prefer it to Domino/Notes.

[saahne]

There's a comparison of OpenOffice and Symphony here.

Out of all the OpenOffice versions I'd stick with Novell Edition or Go-oo--not sure what the difference is between those two is given Meeks involvement.

See The problem with (Not so) OpenOffice.org

[snakeeyes]

Originally Posted by saahne

There's a comparison of OpenOffice and Symphony here.

Out of all the OpenOffice versions I'd stick with Novell Edition or Go-oo--not sure what the difference is between those two is given Meeks involvement.

See The problem with (Not so) OpenOffice.org

what is Go-oo?

[else_where]

Originally Posted by snakeeyes

what is Go-oo?

Go-oo is basically openoffice.org with patches that Sun hasn't yet or will not accept. It's the version of openOffice that many distros are actually packaging, including openSUSE and *buntu. (Fedora and Debian, I believe, stick to pure openoffice.org.)

You can check out go-oo.org for more info.

Hope this helps...

Cheers,
KV

[snakeeyes]

Originally Posted by else_where

Go-oo is basically openoffice.org with patches that Sun hasn't yet or will not accept. It's the version of openOffice that many distros are actually packaging, including openSUSE and *buntu. (Fedora and Debian, I believe, stick to pure openoffice.org.)

You can check out go-oo.org for more info.

Hope this helps...

Cheers,
KV

thanks, I will check that link out

[Sagemta]

Originally Posted by else_where

Go-oo is basically openoffice.org with patches that Sun hasn't yet or will not accept. It's the version of openOffice that many distros are actually packaging, including openSUSE and *buntu. (Fedora and Debian, I believe, stick to pure openoffice.org.)

You can check out go-oo.org for more info.

Hope this helps...

Cheers,
KV

So does that mean that Opensuse already has Go-oo in it or would I really need to install Go-oo?

[saahne]

Originally Posted by Sagemta

So does that mean that Opensuse already has Go-oo in it or would I really need to install Go-oo?

See OpenOffice section in openSUSE guide to 11.

openSUSE ships the [Go-OO http://go-oo.org/] version of OpenOffice.org, which means users get a lot of additional features not found in the upstream version of OpenOffice.org.

* Gstreamer Integration: Want to add more zip to your presentations? OpenOffice.org includes Gstreamer support, so you can embed music and videos into your presentations and other documents.
* Expanded document format support: OpenOffice.org already supports dozens of formats — including Microsoft Office formats, Open Document Format, and many others — you can import documents from MS-Works, WordPerfect Grafics (WPG), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), and OpenXML DocX (Word), XlsX (Excel), and PptX (PowerPoint) formats. Note that OpenOffice.org on openSUSE support import only for OpenXML.
* Faster access to your office suite: Go-OO starts faster, thanks to performance improvements over stock OpenOffice.org. In addition, with the Systray Quick-starter, (Found under Tools -> Options -> Memory) OpenOffice.org runs in the background, ready to open, edit, and create new documents.
* 3-D effects: You'll find Linux-only 3-D transitions in Impress for your presentations.
* Script OpenOffice.org with Mono: Go-OO adds support for Mono, allowing users to build integrated applications in Mono-supported languages like C#, IronPython, Boo, and more!
* Better Excel interoperability, and support for VBA macros.

[Sagemta]

Thanks saahne!