IBM donate Lotus Symphony code to Apache

[alexalex]

Last month Oracle has donated Open Office code to Apache Software Foundation.

IBM Donate Lotus Symphony Source Code to Apache

IBM have announced they will donate the IBM Lotus Symphony source code ? consisting of 3 million lines of code - to Apache. IBM Lotus Symphony is an office productivity suite, based on OpenOffice. The source code could now be folded into the OpenOffice project and, according to the announcement at the office productivity software's website, IBM donated the Lotus Symphony source code with the intention of providing the OpenOffice project with new capabilities, to further accelerate the development of the OpenOffice platform. The source code will reportedly include functionality for ensuring data is easier to view, read and manipulate from "any type of editing tool," and for those with vision impairments.

Oracle proposed contributing the OpenOffice.org code to the Apache Software Foundation's Incubator last month. Kevin Cavanaugh, Vice President at IBM Collaboration Solutions, was enthusiastic about the move:

"IBM welcomes Oracle's contribution of OpenOffice software to the Apache Software Foundation. We look forward to engaging with other community members to advance the technology beginning with our strong support of the incubation process for OpenOffice at Apache."

IBM will continue to work on Lotus Symphony, both internally and in collaboration with the OpenOffice community. According to the announcement, IBM are also in the process of expanding the Lotus Symphony team.

[Angel Blue01]

Cool. But what is Apache going to do with 2 office suites?

[KiHu]

  On 17/07/2011 at 18:02, Angel Blue01 said:

Cool. But what is Apache going to do with 2 office suites?

Make one massive superior office suite to best them all.

[jakem1]

  On 17/07/2011 at 18:04, Philip James Fry said:

Make one massive superior office suite to best them all.

But two wrongs don't make a right ;)

[Growled Member]

It seems a huge waste to have IBM and Apache on one side and LibreOffice on the other. Things would be better if they just worked together.

[Chosen One]

Symphony is a bloated pos, they made us give up our Microsoft Office for their pos office suite.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

  On 17/07/2011 at 18:02, Angel Blue01 said:

Cool. But what is Apache going to do with 2 office suites?

There can be only one.

[AJerman]

  On 17/07/2011 at 21:54, Chosen One said:

Symphony is a bloated pos, they made us give up our Microsoft Office for their pos office suite.

Lotus Symphony and Notes are two of the worst pieces of ****, I mean software, I've ever had the experience of using. I'd rather use console based mail and text editing clients than use that junk. At least then I wouldn't have to wait 5 minutes for the damn thing to start responding again.

So to answer Angel Blue01's question, hopefully they will delete the code and destroy the media it was stored on.

[guru]

  On 17/07/2011 at 18:13, jakem1 said:

But two wrongs don't make a right ;)

ms office could use some competition :shiftyninja: