This new podcast is a robust, 30-minute discussion on the value of Lotus Symphony as well as what we are seeing with customers adopting or considering Symphony. The speakers are product manager Eric Otchet, part of my team; David Pearson, the services team's Symphony expert; and Gary Kearney, the worldwide sales leader for Symphony (and other Notes/Domino products).
TopicsWorth a listen, or read the transcript.
* What is Lotus Symphony and how does it fit into a set of tools?
* Open source movement - Is it safe to be moving in this direction for an organization?
* How does Lotus Symphony compare to Microsoft products?
* Who should use Lotus Symphony?
* What additional functionality or benefits does Lotus Symphony have beyond Microsoft's suite?
* What is our roadmap, long-term viability of Lotus Symphony?
* What do I do about technical support, what's the best method for coexistence, what do I do about security and stability?
Link: IBM Software Services for Lotus ExpertBriefing: Lotus Symphony >
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Henry Ferlauto http://www.geniusinside.com | 4/22/2009 2:34:37 PM
Something to ponder: In Ed's current Symphony presentation he states that IBM saved approximately $81,000,000 by IBM not upgrading their office licenses and switching approx. 80% of the company's 386,000 employees to Symphony. (The other 20% need features not yet in Symphony like macros.)
The U.S. Federal Government has approximately 2,704,000 employees. (That's about 7 IBMs.)
The President is looking for each agency to save approximately $100,000,000.
Even if the government pays less for MS-Office than IBM pays, it all adds up to a nice chunk of change.
By the same token I also wonder how the new administration feels about the open document formats.
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Jfranchetti | 4/23/2009 8:27:52 AM
Does the sale of Sun to Oracle (instead of IBM) in away way change the future direction \ strategy of Symphony?
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Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 4/23/2009 9:58:54 AM
No, our strategy for Symphony is based on work with OpenOffice.org and IBM are ourselves a contributing member of OpenOffice.
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Nick Halliwell http://www.comware.net | 4/23/2009 8:53:44 PM
Ed,
The link is unbelievavble slow. Its quoting over 2 hours to down load a 32 Mb file. I have down loaded other files of similar files today in a few min.
Nick
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Brett Purcell http://www.nlearnseries.com | 4/23/2009 9:10:43 PM
Hi Ed,
I see you mentioning technical support as one of the topics you are discussing. Does this include end user support too? I wasn't sure if you were aware that we offer job aids for symphony suite, here is link a partial sample:
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Let me know you would like a full sample sent/emailed to you.
Thanks.
Brett
Maybe an 'advanced topic' but earlier I attended a web conference where Bob Balfe showed how to wire Notes data from a view into a Symphony spreadsheet in a composite application. Not for novices, but I didn't spot anything I'd describe as coding. Very cool, and lots of potential business uses.