IBM Lotus Symphony

For the 1980s DOS software, see Lotus Symphony (DOS).

IBM Lotus Symphony
Developer(s)IBM
Initial release2007; 17 years ago (2007)[1]
Final release
3.0.1 FP2[2][3] Edit this on Wikidata / 29 November 2012
Preview release
3.0 Beta 4[4] Edit this on Wikidata / 26 August 2010
Operating systemLinux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
TypeOffice suite, web browser
LicenseProprietary (registerware)[5]

IBM Lotus Symphony is a discontinued suite of applications for creating, editing, and sharing text, spreadsheet, presentations, and other documents and browsing the World Wide Web. It was first distributed as commercial proprietary software, then as freeware, before IBM contributed the suite to the Apache Software Foundation in 2014 for inclusion in the free and open-source Apache OpenOffice software suite.[6][7]

First released in 2007,[1] the suite has a name similar to the 1980s DOS Lotus Symphony suite, but the two software suites are otherwise unrelated. The previous Lotus application suite, Lotus SmartSuite, is also unrelated.

IBM discontinued development of Lotus Symphony in January 2012 with the final release of version 3.0.1, moving future development effort to Apache OpenOffice, and donating the source code to the Apache Software Foundation.[8]

  1. ^ a b Fiveash, Kelly (19 September 2007). "IBM hopes open office is Symphony to your key-tapping fingers". The Register. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
  2. ^ "IBM Lotus Symphony - Buzz: Symphony 3.0.1 FIXPACK 2 is Now AVAILABLE". 29 November 2012. Archived from the original on 29 January 2013.
  3. ^ "IBM Lotus Symphony - Release Notes". Archived from the original on 26 April 2011.
  4. ^ "IBM Lotus Symphony - Buzz: IBM Lotus Symphony 3 Beta 4 is now available". 26 August 2010. Archived from the original on 10 September 2010.
  5. ^ Byfield, Bruce (4 October 2007). "OpenOffice vs. Lotus Symphony". Datamation. Archived from the original on 17 September 2009. Retrieved 15 January 2010. For all purposes, it is a proprietary fork of the OpenOffice.org code
  6. ^ "IBM End of support and migration options for IBM Lotus Symphony - United States". www-01.ibm.com. 8 January 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  7. ^ "Merging Lotus Symphony: Allegro moderato: Apache OpenOffice". blogs.apache.org. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  8. ^ Clarke, Gavin (14 July 2011). "IBM crams Lotus Symphony back into OpenOffice". The Register. Retrieved 18 April 2012.