IBM has upgraded its free Lotus Symphony productivity suite, adding several features that make its word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications work with Microsoft documents. Launched in 2007 to chip away at Microsoft Office, Symphony failed to budge Office’s share of 500 million seats. Instead, Symphony has acquired a more potent rival in free, Web-based platforms such as Google Docs. IBM is working to build the Web-based version of Symphony under the Project Concord banner. Concord will initially allow Web-based editing for documents and proceed to Web-based spreadsheets and presentations.
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IBM Feb. 4 said it has upgraded its free Lotus Symphony productivity
suite, adding several features that make its word processing, spreadsheet
and presentation applications work with Microsoft documents.
The entire code for Lotus Symphony 3 has been rebased on
the current OpenOffic…