[PCWorld]

Post your comments for First Impressions: Symphony, Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon here

[stomfi]

I'm still using Lotus Approach and the screen cam from the Lotus suite at work. This is because Approach is dead easy compared to other relational database applications. And the screen cam feature makes it possible to quickly show users how to fill in forms and create sketches for job cards.
If Lotus Symphony included these two easy end user programs, I could migrate my office.

[g2g5911]

Also If you don't particularly care for gnome, try Kubuntu. I've been using Kubuntu Gutsy Alphas for about a month now and it is rock solid and greater than what even windows vista was meant to be

[omione]

"... you have to sign up for a free developer's account with IBM just to download the thing"
You don't have to be register to download Symphony suite. You have to click on "Proceed without an IBM ID".
https://www14.softwa...erplotus-lsymb3

[dlauber]

IBM/Lotus has a winning word processor in Lotus WordPro -- a far better word processor than even the very fine Word 2007. WordPro is easier to use and understand, faster, more productive -- very close to being a desktop publishing program in part because it makes using styles (paragraph, frame, page, table) far easier than any other word processor. I hope IBM had the good sense to adapt a lot of WordPro's productivity tools like its InfoBox into Symphony. (And didn't Lotus once produce a product called Symphony long ago?)

[GuidoMuldoon]

That is so da bienhua! I'm currently using Hoary Hedgehog but after reading your review I will definitely upgrade to Gutsy. You are apparently a fellow "Browncoat" and obviously can be trusted. Shiny!