IT-Director.com: Lotus Symphony 1 freely accessible to all

July 7 2008

Peter Abrahams of Bloor Research on his initial reactions to Lotus Symphony...

Lotus Symphony is the office productivity suite embedded into Lotus Notes. Lotus Notes is a product that is bought in large numbers by many enterprises. This means that Symphony has the full engineering excellence--reliability, usability, support and maintenance--that we expect of any enterprise product, especially one from IBM.  ...

Given that Symphony is accessible, is well engineered, provides the functions that most people use and is free it seems an ideal product for a large proportion of users, especially anyone who is disabled and looking for an economic way of creating a full function home office.
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  1. 1  Nick Sandman  | 7/7/2008 6:58:58 PM

    "especially anyone who is disabled and looking for an economic way of creating a full function home office."

    Is it just me or does aiming a product at disabled people with a home office seem somewhat of a niche?

  1. 2  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 7/7/2008 8:48:42 PM

    I believe this analyst is focused on accessibility.

  1. 3  Nick Sandman  | 7/7/2008 11:37:38 PM

    Though my comment was mostly in jest; it still strikes me as a strange thing to focus on. Personally I would point out the benifits of Symphony to *any* home office users - as far as I know disabled people don't have different problems when it comes to office suits then anyone else.

    And if you really want to focus on accessibility then the focus should really shift from a home user of any form and move towards small businesses. The reasoning here is that most home users either have microsoft office pre-installed when they buy their machine or can fairly easily aquire a less-then-legit version... and they're hardly about to be audited on their word processing software.

    However for a small business the costs of a professional version of office can be quite high.. thus the free alternative gives them the most benifit.

    Just my 2 cents.