http://symphony.lotus.com

Open Office / Office 2007 alternative for linux/windows/mac

downloading now.

Must be getting smashed, won't load for me. Is it OSS?

It's not that great I thought. I've had to d/l it because someone in the office needed to convert old lotus' files over to excel.. and it was slooooooooooooow as to do anything.

Finally the website loaded; for a feature list I could download a PDF or watch a video

f***s sake, I'M ON THE f***ING WEB, just give me a goddamn single page with a feature list

I guess it is a tiny bit slow but on a powerful desktop it is not a prob. Nice interface, though it does seem to bundle all it's word/excel/powerpoint functionality into the one program/window.
It's not opensource.

I guess it is a tiny bit slow but on a powerful desktop it is not a prob

Which unfortunatly rules it out in most office enviroments :(

Im still trying to get the page too load so I can check it out

Web server must be Domino.. OH YES I DID LOTUS FAN BOYS!

you're funny ticman, lotus fanboys don't exits.

Lotus Notes: Purchased everywhere by managers who have secretaries to do their typing.

they force us to use lotus notes as our email client on staff PC's at uni. Its a f***ing joke. Some of the s***tiest software ive had the unfortune to deal with. I can't imagine there Office equivilant being any better.

The amount of people on facebook in the "I hate Lotus" groups from IBM is awesome :D.

i wanna join that s***... i'm actually starting a campaign at work to have everyone switch to exchange

as soon as a saw IBM then notes in the first post.. i said.. NO THANKS

No valid arguments given in the last 3 posts!

I think its funny that QLD Health want to change from groupwise to exchange but they cant because their union says it will make the Novell specialists useless....

I'm a Lotus fanboy!!.. Go Domino/Notes!

If all you do is basic word processing and spreadsheets, I say screw all other office apps and just use google docs. It's the shiz.

I'm biased as I admin both but nothing wrong with Domino/Novell so stfu haters :)

haha, domino/novell.

haha.

I manage both as well :) .... both have advantages .... although we use domino for a LOT of applications as well as mail.

Pretty much everyone I know just laughs when Lotus is mentioned.. I've never seen it (I think a friend used it at her law firm until they migrated to Exchange a bit later, and she complained about it sucking a lot), so I dunno what the advantages are over exchange

it had advantages over exchange..........5.5

Domino f***ing sucks, plain and simple. In my last role, I was given the task of getting Exchange and Domino to talk nicely together on the same domain. I spent a couple of hours installing and configuring Exchange so it ran perfectly, then about 3 weeks beating my head against the bulls*** that is Domino. Then I resigned :D

Its called domino because when one server falls over the rest fall over as well! lawl

We use notes at work....because they developed an audit documentation program on it. It's not bad for what we use it for, but f*** SAKE, spent like 2 hours going through an exported report today because it didn't copy across the bullet points and case properly. And don't get me started on the undo functionality, spell checking etc etc.

Its called domino because when one server falls over the rest fall over as well! lawl

haha I laughed right out loud

Seing "lotus.com" immediately destroyed any excitement I had about checking it out.

Finally the website loaded; for a feature list I could download a PDF or watch a video

f***s sake, I'M ON THE f***ING WEB, just give me a goddamn single page with a feature list

Their site must have been developed by the same team from MSY

The only thing worse than using lotus is having to accept the giant managerial turd that your manager drops in your mouth just prior to being forced to use it.