Ed Brill

Information Week: IBM Sees 100,000 Lotus Symphony Downloads In First Week

IBM said Wednesday that the beta version of its free Lotus Symphony productivity software has been downloaded more than 100,000 times since the company made it available on the Internet a week ago.

IBM said the number represents a record for software downloaded from its Web site. To boot, the part of the company's site that hosts the software has been visited more than 1 million times during the same period, according to IBM.