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    IBM Lotus Suite

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by vi3tscorpian, Feb 12, 2009.

  1. vi3tscorpian

    vi3tscorpian Notebook Evangelist

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    hello guys!

    did you know when you purchase a thinkpad, you're entitled to receive a free IBM Lotus (office) Suite by contacting IBM by phone or on the web. Have any of you guys done that? is the Lotus Suite good?

    thanks
     
    vi3tscorpian, Feb 12, 2009
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  2. t2ppp124

    t2ppp124 Notebook Consultant

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    Well Symphony's free (for making and opening ms office files....) And is actually quite usable.

    Lotus Symphony

    Tom
     
    t2ppp124, Feb 12, 2009
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  3. Black_Hawk

    Black_Hawk Notebook Enthusiast

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    What's included with the Lotus Suite? Cuz u already get Lotus Symphony for free...
     
    Black_Hawk, Feb 12, 2009
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  4. jonlumpkin

    jonlumpkin NBR Transmogrifier

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    I would assume you could get Lotus notes. This is an E-mail client (outlook alternative) that a lot of corporations use. I personally am not a fan because it has an odd interface and tortures HTML E-mail.
     
    jonlumpkin, Feb 12, 2009
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  5. The Fire Snake

    The Fire Snake Notebook Virtuoso

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    Hmm this is interesting, didn't know about that, maybe I will check it out. I actually used Lotus back in the day around 1995 or so. I actually have some documents still in Lotus WordPro format(their word processing program), that I could never convert to any other format.
     
    The Fire Snake, Feb 13, 2009
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  6. zillal

    zillal Notebook Consultant

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    Not aware of anything except Lotus Symphony being available free of charge from IBM.

    I have kept on using the Lotus Notes client after retirement and when I got my T500 with Vista I needed a new client -- paid $10 for a download -- not from IBM, only found a trial version for download from them.

    I really don't recommend it to anybody who never used Lotus Notes before, it's quite complex. But for those who have used Notes earlier, it's kind of interesting, IBM rewrote all of it on top of the Java Eclipse platform to fit with all their Websphere software.

    Symphony is integrated into the Lotus Notes desktop, when I now click on a Microsoft Word document, Excel spreadsheet or Freelance presentation I get it displayed as a document on the Lotus Notes desktop. Very happy to be rid of the Microsoft Office suite, was using an old copy of Office 2000 until now.
     
    zillal, Feb 13, 2009
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  7. CheetahHeels

    CheetahHeels Notebook Enthusiast

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    Lotus Symphony is just a proprietary fork of the OpenOffice.org project. See this article. Basically, OpenOffice.org is still superior in features, while Lotus Symphony (currently) has a more polished user interface. If you care more for function, use OpenOffice.org. If you care more for form, use Symphony.

    For me, Lotus Symphony doesn't offer anything useful over OpenOffice.org.

    (Ah, good ol' Lotus SmartSuite... Those were the days. :cool: )
     
    CheetahHeels, Feb 15, 2009
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