The OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) is an XML standard that lets you store and exchange office application documents, including word-processor, spreadsheet, and presentation files. Whether you try to perform special tasks on files saved from such applications or work on applications to process such files, you should become familiar with this important format. Learn about the two possible forms of OpenDocument files, as multipart packages and as single XML documents, and ... Full article

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There are several plug-in examples in Symphony toolkit and on the web site. We will continue publish more plug-in examples. We hope more developers will contribute to Symphony by building plug-ins for it as well as for Notes and Sametime.

The plug-ins can be trivial like showing local weather/stock prices or complex ones like a front end of BI solution software (Hyperion or Cognus). The plug-ins could enable end users to retrieve data and embed them to documents (report or present... Full article

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Based on feedback from the community we've posted an updated version of Lotus Symphony Beta 4. This update fixes a common problem that was reported by many of you on our support forums.

Please download and install the latest version as soon as possible. Thanks again for your feedback.

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Datamation magazine just released the winners in their Product of the Year contest for 2008.

Lotus Symphony won in the Office Productivity Software category beating out other nominees Microsoft Office, OpenOffice 2.3.1 and Think Free Office.

Read the complete article here http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/cnews/article.php/3727446

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The Beta 4 release adds many functions requested by the community including the ability to add new pages from an existing presentation into your current one. We've had great early feedback on the continued progress we have been making as well as the speed in which we are delivering the new functions.

Beta 4 is also our Developers Release. With this release we are making available a new developers toolkit, dedicated developers page on our website and a support forum for developers. A... Full article

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If you have been waiting for an overview of Lotus Symphony in a brochure format your wait is over.

The brochure is available from this link ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/lotus/lotusweb/product/symphony/Lotus_Symphony_Software.pdf

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Yue MA, Chief Architect of Lotus Symphony

Recently I had a discussion with friends who are working on investment banking. We don't have the same education background, and we work in two really different industries, but we all have an intuitive understanding of this principle.

In Symphony design and development, there is a question we always ask ourselves: What kind of feature we should provide to customers and what kind of request we may eliminate from the long list o... Full article

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New sessions added

Tues, 22, Jan 2008 from 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (SOLD OUT)

Tues, 22, Jan 2008 from 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (Seats Available)

Lotusphere 2008 will be held in Orlando Florida at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin resort the week of January 20th. For more information on this event follow this link Full article

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We have updated our Beta 3 release with full language support that includes dictionaries and templates in addition to the user interface. You can now enjoy Lotus Symphony in your language of choice.

There are some new download and installation instructions, so please make sure you read the information on the download site and the install guide.

We hope you will enjoy using Lotus Symphony in one of our supported languages. Let us know your feedback and we will update y... Full article

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Lotusphere 2008 will be held in Orlando Florida at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin resort the week of January 20th. For more information on this event follow this link http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/lotusphere2008/

Are you ready to experience the freedom of choice and learn about all the possibilities that come with it? IBM Lotus Symphony De... Full article

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Yin Da Li, Symphony Level 3 Support Team Lead

Now Symphony Beta 3 is available on the website after six weeks since Beta 2 . Many people may ask what's new in Beta 3 and what features we add in Beta 3. OK, let's take a look.

Lots of people have been asking for the multi-language version since Symphony Beta 1 was released. Now I'm happy to say that it is made available in Beta 3. The English version of Beta 3 was released yesterday and multi-language version of Beta 3 wi... Full article

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We've just posted our Beta 3 release of Lotus Symphony. Why not download it and give it a try today.

If you like Beta 3, you can take advantage of a new function on our website and Invite your friends and family to try it for themselves. Simply click on the invite a friend link and we'll let you create a personal invitation that you can send to anyone.

Thanks for your continued support and feedback. Happy Holidays from the entire IBM Lotus Symphony team.

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Helen Dai, Symphony Development Manager

Our Beta 2 was made available on the website last week and the press release went out this Tuesday with headline " IBM Announces Next Symphony; Quarter-Million Registered Users in Two Months" (http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22611.wss). The development team has certainly been enjoying the enormous response from ... Full article

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Check out the new new video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4ZhPI1eic4

We hope you enjoyed the video. While it is all in good fun, let's not lose the sight of a really important point.... whether your IT budget is multi-millions of dollars or your own personal bank account, you have better things to be doing with your money. Many companies and individuals are paying lar... Full article

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We just made the Lotus Symphony Beta 2 release available from our download site. Be one of the first to try out this new release and let us know what you think.
Please post your comments here: http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/supportThread.jspa?threadID=3336&tstart=0
Remember to un-install previous ver... Full article

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Michael Karasick, Director of Development

Greetings from the Symphony Development team. We have had a lot of feedback from you on Symphony Beta 1, and we would like to welcome you to download Beta 2, and try it. You will see a number of things that we have talked about in the Symphony Buzz Page. A lot of the Beta 2 content is direct feedback to us from you. Please keep the feedback coming. With your help Symphony will become "better, smaller, faster." We will be using this blo... Full article

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We know many of you have already made some great suggestions on how to enhance Lotus Symphony. Now is your chance to influence the development of the next Beta release. Please follow the link below to a posting in the Symphony Documents Features Request Forum titled Beta Release 3 Candidates posted by Product Manager1. Please keep your comments and suggestions specifically to the list of enhancements in the post. Of course you can still post other feature requests or comments in your own post. T... Full article

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The Beta 2 release is about 3 weeks away and we have made some significant progress in many areas. We have simplified the installation process by adopting a new format that enables a single click install. No need to find files after downloading, you simply click on the file you downloaded and the install will begin. We've also adopted a new single icon view to launch Symphony. When you launch Symphony you will see a "Getting Started" page that will enable you to launch any of the applications. I... Full article

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We've received very valuable community feedback about performance and installation issues with the current Beta release of Symphony. In response to this, the lab has been focusing on these issues for beta 2 (to be honest we started even before Beta 1 was posted !). In some early testing of the Beta 2 code we are seeing dramatic improvements in the areas of start up, loading .ppt presentations and improved response times when opening and saving documents in other formats. We'll post more data a... Full article

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ARMONK, NY--(MARKET WIRE)--Sep 26, 2007 -- IBM (NYSE:IBM - News) today announced that Lotus Symphony, IBM's new, free office productivity software, has been downloaded by more than 100,000 registered business and consumer users in its first week. The Lotus Symphony Web site (www.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony), which is providing user community feedback for the Symphony beta software, has received more than one million visitors during this period.
The download figure is a record for IBM s... Full article

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