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Features: Visual Basic macros, OLE Objects and embedded audio/video support for nested tables, presentation masters and DataPilot tables for pivoting on large datasets.

Revised edition released on 1 September 2009.

Revised edition released on 23 February 2009.

Revised edition released on 3 March 2008.

Introduced the Lotus Symphony Developer Toolkit.

Released in 23 languages on 7 January 2008.

IBM planned to release an "Apache OpenOffice IBM Edition" after the release of Apache OpenOffice 4, but later decided that it would offer the stock Apache OpenOffice with IBM extensions. On 23 January 2012, IBM announced version 3.0.1 would be the last version of Lotus Symphony and their efforts would be going into the Apache OpenOffice project, including the Symphony user interface. On 13 July 2011, IBM announced that it would donate Lotus Symphony to the Apache Foundation.

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The software was developed by IBM China Development Laboratory, located in Beijing, which now develops Apache OpenOffice. Symphony 3.0 was originally planned to include other existing modules, including an equation editor, database software, and a drawing program. and includes enhancements such as new sidebars in its user interface and support for Visual Basic for Applications macros, OpenDocument Format 1.2, and OLE. Symphony 3.0 was based on 3.0, though not under the LGPL but under a special arrangement between IBM and Sun (who required copyright assignment of all outside contributions). IBM released version 1.0 of Lotus Symphony in May 2008 as a free download, and introduced three minor upgrades through 20.

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The code in Symphony is the same as that for Notes 8's productivity tools. In 2007, IBM released Notes 8, and then released Notes' productivity tools as a standalone application, Symphony, in a beta one month later. Later in 2006, IBM announced that Lotus Notes 8, which already incorporated Workplace technology, would also include the same productivity tools as the Workplace Managed Client. Workplace used code from version 1.1.4, the last version released under the Sun Industry Standards Source License, which allowed for release of binaries of modified versions without releasing changes. In 2006, IBM introduced Workplace Managed Client version 2.6, which included "productivity tools" - a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation program - that supported ODF. Symphony has its roots in the IBM Workplace Managed Client component of IBM Workplace. Ī web based version of Symphony, called LotusLive Symphony, was launched in 2011.

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On 29 November 2012 a second fixpack update for Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 was released. On 27 March 2012 a first fixpack update for Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 was released. Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 added enhancements including support for one million spreadsheet rows, bubble charts, and a new design for the home page.

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In 2009, IBM created development tools for BlackBerry smartphones to link to IBM's business software, which also allow opening ODF file-formats, following a full Symphony later. Symphony is based on Eclipse Rich Client Platform from IBM Lotus Expeditor (the shell) and 3 (the core office-suite code). Previous support for Lotus SmartSuite formats was disabled in Symphony 3.

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It can also export Portable Document Format (PDF) files and import Office Open XML files. Symphony supports the OpenDocument formats as well as the binary Microsoft Office formats.

IBM Lotus Symphony Presentations, a presentation program.

IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, a spreadsheet program.

IBM Lotus Symphony Documents, a word processor program.

IBM discontinued development of Lotus Symphony in January 2012 with the final release of version 3.0.1, moving future development effort to Apache OpenOffice, and donating the source code to the Apache Software Foundation. The previous Lotus application suite, Lotus SmartSuite, is also unrelated. įirst released in 2007, the suite has a name similar to the 1980s DOS Lotus Symphony suite, but the two software suites are otherwise unrelated. It was first distributed as commercial proprietary software, then as freeware, before IBM contributed the suite to the Apache Software Foundation in 2014 for inclusion in the free and open-source Apache OpenOffice software suite. IBM Lotus Symphony is a discontinued suite of applications for creating, editing, and sharing text, spreadsheet, presentations, and other documents and browsing the World Wide Web.