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{{Infobox_Software
{{Infobox Sesame Street character
| name = Zoe
| name = Lotus Symphony
| logo = [[Image:Lotus Symphony icon.png|64 px]]
| first = [[1992]]
| gender = female
| screenshot = [[Image:Lotus Symphony Documents.png|300 px]]
| creator =
| caption = Lotus Symphony Documents
| voiced by = [[Fran Brill]]
| developer = [[Lotus Software]]
| latest_release_version = [[1.1]]
| portrayer =
| latest_release_date = {{release_date|2008|08|29}}
| alias =
| operating_system = [[Linux]] or [[Microsoft Windows| Windows]] ([[Apple Macintosh|Mac]] version announced)<br>[[DOS]] for 1985-1992 versions.
| genre = [[Office suite]]
| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
| website = http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony
}}
}}
'''IBM Lotus Symphony''' is a [[software suite|suite of applications]] for creating, editing, and sharing text, spreadsheet, and other documents. Originally released in July 1984 as an [[integrated software]] application for [[DOS]], IBM revived the Symphony name for a new [[office suite]] that was first released free of charge in 2007.


==Lotus Symphony for DOS==
'''Zoe'''is a 3-year-old, orange female monster on ''[[Sesame Street]]'', performed by [[Fran Brill]]. She was designed in her color to complement her "boyfriend" [[Elmo]], who was gaining popularity at her introduction in 1992.


The first incarnation of Lotus Symphony was an integrated software package for [[DOS]] released by [[Lotus Development]] as a follow-on to its popular [[spreadsheet]] program, [[Lotus 1-2-3]]. [[Lotus Jazz]] on the Apple [[Macintosh]] was a sibling product.
She is now permanently dressed in a [[ballet tutu|tutu]], as like many girls of her age, Zoe is obsessed with [[ballet]]. Her love of dance in general resulted in the video [[Zoe's Dance Moves]].


Although 1-2-3 had originally been billed as an integrated product with spreadsheet, database and graphing functions (hence the name "1-2-3"), competing products such as [[AppleWorks]] provided a more comprehensive level of integration and additional functionality; Symphony was Lotus' response.
She often rides a [[Soapbox (car)|soapbox-style car]] around ''Sesame Street'', called the Zoemobile. She has a [[pet rock]], Rocco, much to Elmo's constant dismay.

Symphony is a [[DOS]] program that is loaded entirely into memory when started. Using ALT-F10 the user can alternate among the five "environments" of the program, each a rendering of the same underlying data. The environments are:

* SHEET, a spreadsheet program very similar to 1-2-3
* DOC, a word processor
* GRAPH, a graphical charting program
* FORM, a table-based [[database management system]]
* COMM, a [[communication software|communications program]]

Several "add-in applications" can be "attached" and activated, extending Symphony's capabilities, including a powerful macro manager, a document outliner, a spell-checker, statistics, various communications configurations, and a tutorial, which demonstrates Symphony usage by running macros. The program allows the screen to be split into panes, showing different views of the underlying data simultaneously, each of which can display any of the five environments. The user is then able to see that changes made in one environment are reflected in others simultaneously, perhaps the package's most interesting feature.

All the data that Symphony handles is kept in spreadsheet-like cells. The other environments—word processing, database, communications, graphics—in essence only change the display format and focus of that data (including available menus, special keys, and functionality), which can be saved and retrieved as .WR1 files.

Symphony was designed to work completely in the standard 640k of conventional memory, supplemented by any Intel [[80286]] [[extended memory]] configured as [[expanded memory]]. Similar and competitive packages included [[SmartWare]], [[Microsoft Works]], [[Context MBA]], [[Framework (office suite)|Framework]], [[Enable]] and [[Ability Office]].

The spreadsheet engine is the same as the one used in Lotus 1-2-3, once the most popular of its kind.

Compared to other word processors of the day such as Micropro [[WordStar]] 3.3, [[WordPerfect]] 4.2, and [[Microsoft Office Word|Microsoft Word]] 2.0, Symphony's word processing environment was simple, but effective and uncomplicated.

Compared to other database programs of the day—[[Ashton-Tate]]'s [[dBase]] III, MDBS [[Knowledgeman]], Borland [[Paradox (database)|Paradox]] 2.0 and [[Borland Reflex]] 1.0—Symphony's FORM environment was weak, lacking the analytical abilities of Reflex and the pseudo relational power of dBase III. However, it was integrated directly into the spreadsheet, simple to query, and fast, and the data could be accessed using [[VLOOKUP]] features of the spreadsheet.

Like its predecessor Lotus 1-2-3, Symphony contains a reasonably powerful programming language referred to as its "command language," which can be saved either within a spreadsheet or separately in "libraries" in the form of ''macros'': lists of menu operations, data, and other macro keywords. (One is "menucall," which allows users to call their own menus, embedded into spreadsheets, which behave just like Symphony's own.) One of the most significant features of Symphony is the integration of the various modules using this command language. In its day it was one of the few programs that would be able to log onto a stock market source, select data using dynamic or pre-assigned criteria, place that data into a spreadsheet, perform calculations, then chart the data and print out the results. All of this could take place unattended on a preset schedule.

==IBM Lotus Symphony==
[[Image:Lotus Symphony icons new.png|190 px|right|thumb|''Left to right:'' the document icons for Lotus Symphony Documents, Presentations, and Spreadsheets]]
IBM Lotus Symphony is a [[office suite|set of applications]] comprising:
* IBM Lotus Symphony Documents, a [[word processor]]
* IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, a [[spreadsheet]] program
* IBM Lotus Symphony Presentations, a [[presentation program]]

Symphony supports the [[OpenDocument]] format (ODF), as well as the binary [[Microsoft Office]] and [[Lotus SmartSuite]] formats, but not the [[Office Open XML]] format used by [[Microsoft Office 2007]]. It can also export [[Portable Document Format]] (PDF) files.

Symphony is available for [[Linux]] and [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], with [[Mac OS X]] support announced for the first half of 2009. It is based on [[Eclipse (software)|Eclipse]] [[Rich Client Platform]] from [[IBM Lotus Expeditor]] for its shell and [[OpenOffice.org]] 1.1.4 for the core office suite code.<ref>Eric Lai, [http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/137545/ibms_symphony_hitting_wrong_notes_reviewers_say.html IBM's Symphony Hitting Wrong Notes, Reviewers Say], Computerworld, September 24, 2007</ref> OpenOffice.org version 1.1.4 was dual licensed under both the [[GNU Lesser General Public License]] and Sun's own [[Sun Industry Standards Source License|SISSL]], which allowed for entities to change the code without releasing their changes. Therefore, IBM does not have to release the source code of Symphony.

IBM released version 1.0 of Lotus Symphony in May 2008 as a free download. IBM plans to incorporate code from the latest version of OpenOffice.org into version 2.0. Symphony 2.0 will also include modules that are already part of OpenOffice.org, including an equation editor, database software, and a drawing program, as well as other modules specifically provided by IBM.<ref>[[Edward Mendelson]], [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2186685,00.asp IBM Lotus Symphony Beta review, "...Now the Bad News" section], September 21, 2007</ref>

Symphony has its roots in [[IBM Workplace]]. In 2006, IBM introduced Workplace Managed Client version 2.6, which included "productivity tools" &mdash; a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation program &mdash; that supported ODF.<ref>Todd Weiss, [http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,106733,00.html IBM Workplace client to support Open Document Format in '06], Computerworld, December 4, 2005</ref><ref>IBM Press Release, [http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19142.wss IBM Announces New Version of Workplace Products With Enhanced Support for Open Standards and Improved SOA Functionality], January 23, 2006</ref> Later that year, IBM announced that Lotus Notes 8, which was already incorporating Workplace technology<ref>Ed Brill, [http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/hannover----announcing-the-next-post-7.0-version-of-lotus-notes "Hannover" -- announcing the next (post 7.0) version of Lotus Notes], June 14, 2005</ref>, would also include the same productivity tools as the Workplace Managed Client.<ref>IBM Press Release, [http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19642.wss IBM Makes Collaborative Innovation Real With Preview of Next Generation IBM Lotus Notes Client], May 16, 2006</ref><ref>Candace Lombardi, [http://www.news.com/IBM-backs-OpenDocument-in-Lotus-Notes/2100-1012_3-6072931.html IBM backs OpenDocument in Lotus Notes], CNET News.com, May 16, 2006</ref> In 2007, IBM released Notes 8, and then released Notes' productivity tools as a standalone application, Symphony, one month later. The code in Symphony is the same as that for Notes 8's productivity tools.<ref>Ed Brill, [http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/introducing-ibm-lotus-symphony-desktop-productivity-software-at-no-charge?opendocument&comments Introducing IBM Lotus Symphony, desktop productivity software at no charge], September 18, 2007 &mdash; see comment 41</ref>

===Version History===
; Beta 1
:* Released on [[September 18]], [[2007]]<ref>IBM Press Release, [http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22326.wss IBM Releases Office Desktop Software at No Charge to Foster Collaboration and Innovation], September 18, 2007</ref>

; Beta 2
:* Released on [[November 5]], [[2007]]<ref>Lotus Symphony Buzz, [http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/buzz.nsf/web_DisPlayPlugin?open&unid=0CE44721A5FE09AD862574A40074E665 Lotus Symphony Beta 2 Release Now Available], November 5, 2007</ref>

; Beta 3
:* Released on [[December 17]], [[2007]]<ref>Lotus Symphony Buzz, [http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/buzz.nsf/web_DisPlayPlugin?open&unid=AE48CC3A87FA6C84862574A40074E674 Lotus Symphony Beta 3 Release Now Available], December 17, 2007</ref>
:* Released in 23 languages on [[January 7]], [[2008]]<ref>Lotus Symphony Buzz, [http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/buzz.nsf/web_DisPlayPlugin?open&unid=98937880065FAC7C862574A40074E6CE Lotus Symphony Beta 3 Now Available in 23 Languages], January 7, 2008</ref>

; Beta 4
:* Released on [[February 1]], [[2008]].<ref>Lotus Symphony Buzz, [http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/buzz.nsf/web_DisPlayPlugin?open&unid=9FDF8CB99066C7E7862574A40074E713 Lotus Symphony Beta 4 Has Arrived], February 1, 2008</ref> Introduced the Lotus Symphony Developer Toolkit.
:* Revised edition released on [[March 3]], 2008<ref>Lotus Symphony Buzz, [http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/buzz.nsf/web_DisPlayPlugin?open&unid=3B51BD562EF380B0862574A40074E74A Symphony Beta 4 Code Update Now Available], March 3, 2008</ref>

; Version 1.0
:* Released on [[May 30]], [[2008]]<ref>Lotus Symphony Buzz, [http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/buzz.nsf/web_DisPlayPlugin?open&unid=ED2B95285B0545B3862574A40074E7C6 Announcing &mdash; IBM Lotus Symphony Version 1.0 is Now Available], May 30, 2008</ref>

;Version 1.1
:* Released on [[August 29]], [[2008]]<ref>Ed Brill, [http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/lotus-symphony-1.1-is-now-available?opendocument&comments Lotus Symphony 1.1 is now available], August 29, 2008</ref>

==See also==
*[[Lotus SmartSuite]]
*[[Comparison of office suites]]

==References==
{{reflist}}


Though it is likely she has many relatives, only the voice of her [[Aunt Chloe]] has been heard on the show. Recently, her aunt Gizelle, who lives in Swan Lake, sent her a tutu. This is a reference to the character of Giselle in the ballet ''[[Giselle]]''.


First video appearance is ''[[The Best of Elmo]]''. Second is ''[[Do The Alphabet]]'', and ''[[Big Bird Sings!]]'', and "Here is Your Life."
==External links==
==External links==
*[http://symphony.lotus.com/ Official site for IBM Lotus Symphony]
{{muppets|Zoe}}
*[http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-175285.html Dinosaur Sightings: Lotus Symphony 3.0] (for DOS) by Greg Shultz, TechRepublic


{{Lotus Software}}

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Lotus Symphony
Developer(s)Lotus Software
Stable release
1.1 / August 29, 2008 (2008-08-29)
Operating systemLinux or Windows (Mac version announced)
DOS for 1985-1992 versions.
TypeOffice suite
LicenseProprietary
Websitehttp://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony

IBM Lotus Symphony is a suite of applications for creating, editing, and sharing text, spreadsheet, and other documents. Originally released in July 1984 as an integrated software application for DOS, IBM revived the Symphony name for a new office suite that was first released free of charge in 2007.

Lotus Symphony for DOS

The first incarnation of Lotus Symphony was an integrated software package for DOS released by Lotus Development as a follow-on to its popular spreadsheet program, Lotus 1-2-3. Lotus Jazz on the Apple Macintosh was a sibling product.

Although 1-2-3 had originally been billed as an integrated product with spreadsheet, database and graphing functions (hence the name "1-2-3"), competing products such as AppleWorks provided a more comprehensive level of integration and additional functionality; Symphony was Lotus' response.

Symphony is a DOS program that is loaded entirely into memory when started. Using ALT-F10 the user can alternate among the five "environments" of the program, each a rendering of the same underlying data. The environments are:

Several "add-in applications" can be "attached" and activated, extending Symphony's capabilities, including a powerful macro manager, a document outliner, a spell-checker, statistics, various communications configurations, and a tutorial, which demonstrates Symphony usage by running macros. The program allows the screen to be split into panes, showing different views of the underlying data simultaneously, each of which can display any of the five environments. The user is then able to see that changes made in one environment are reflected in others simultaneously, perhaps the package's most interesting feature.

All the data that Symphony handles is kept in spreadsheet-like cells. The other environments—word processing, database, communications, graphics—in essence only change the display format and focus of that data (including available menus, special keys, and functionality), which can be saved and retrieved as .WR1 files.

Symphony was designed to work completely in the standard 640k of conventional memory, supplemented by any Intel 80286 extended memory configured as expanded memory. Similar and competitive packages included SmartWare, Microsoft Works, Context MBA, Framework, Enable and Ability Office.

The spreadsheet engine is the same as the one used in Lotus 1-2-3, once the most popular of its kind.

Compared to other word processors of the day such as Micropro WordStar 3.3, WordPerfect 4.2, and Microsoft Word 2.0, Symphony's word processing environment was simple, but effective and uncomplicated.

Compared to other database programs of the day—Ashton-Tate's dBase III, MDBS Knowledgeman, Borland Paradox 2.0 and Borland Reflex 1.0—Symphony's FORM environment was weak, lacking the analytical abilities of Reflex and the pseudo relational power of dBase III. However, it was integrated directly into the spreadsheet, simple to query, and fast, and the data could be accessed using VLOOKUP features of the spreadsheet.

Like its predecessor Lotus 1-2-3, Symphony contains a reasonably powerful programming language referred to as its "command language," which can be saved either within a spreadsheet or separately in "libraries" in the form of macros: lists of menu operations, data, and other macro keywords. (One is "menucall," which allows users to call their own menus, embedded into spreadsheets, which behave just like Symphony's own.) One of the most significant features of Symphony is the integration of the various modules using this command language. In its day it was one of the few programs that would be able to log onto a stock market source, select data using dynamic or pre-assigned criteria, place that data into a spreadsheet, perform calculations, then chart the data and print out the results. All of this could take place unattended on a preset schedule.

IBM Lotus Symphony

File:Lotus Symphony icons new.png
Left to right: the document icons for Lotus Symphony Documents, Presentations, and Spreadsheets

IBM Lotus Symphony is a set of applications comprising:

Symphony supports the OpenDocument format (ODF), as well as the binary Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite formats, but not the Office Open XML format used by Microsoft Office 2007. It can also export Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Symphony is available for Linux and Windows, with Mac OS X support announced for the first half of 2009. It is based on Eclipse Rich Client Platform from IBM Lotus Expeditor for its shell and OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 for the core office suite code.[1] OpenOffice.org version 1.1.4 was dual licensed under both the GNU Lesser General Public License and Sun's own SISSL, which allowed for entities to change the code without releasing their changes. Therefore, IBM does not have to release the source code of Symphony.

IBM released version 1.0 of Lotus Symphony in May 2008 as a free download. IBM plans to incorporate code from the latest version of OpenOffice.org into version 2.0. Symphony 2.0 will also include modules that are already part of OpenOffice.org, including an equation editor, database software, and a drawing program, as well as other modules specifically provided by IBM.[2]

Symphony has its roots in IBM Workplace. In 2006, IBM introduced Workplace Managed Client version 2.6, which included "productivity tools" — a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation program — that supported ODF.[3][4] Later that year, IBM announced that Lotus Notes 8, which was already incorporating Workplace technology[5], would also include the same productivity tools as the Workplace Managed Client.[6][7] In 2007, IBM released Notes 8, and then released Notes' productivity tools as a standalone application, Symphony, one month later. The code in Symphony is the same as that for Notes 8's productivity tools.[8]

Version History

Beta 1
Beta 2
Beta 3
Beta 4
Version 1.0
Version 1.1

See also

References

  1. ^ Eric Lai, IBM's Symphony Hitting Wrong Notes, Reviewers Say, Computerworld, September 24, 2007
  2. ^ Edward Mendelson, IBM Lotus Symphony Beta review, "...Now the Bad News" section, September 21, 2007
  3. ^ Todd Weiss, IBM Workplace client to support Open Document Format in '06, Computerworld, December 4, 2005
  4. ^ IBM Press Release, IBM Announces New Version of Workplace Products With Enhanced Support for Open Standards and Improved SOA Functionality, January 23, 2006
  5. ^ Ed Brill, "Hannover" -- announcing the next (post 7.0) version of Lotus Notes, June 14, 2005
  6. ^ IBM Press Release, IBM Makes Collaborative Innovation Real With Preview of Next Generation IBM Lotus Notes Client, May 16, 2006
  7. ^ Candace Lombardi, IBM backs OpenDocument in Lotus Notes, CNET News.com, May 16, 2006
  8. ^ Ed Brill, Introducing IBM Lotus Symphony, desktop productivity software at no charge, September 18, 2007 — see comment 41
  9. ^ IBM Press Release, IBM Releases Office Desktop Software at No Charge to Foster Collaboration and Innovation, September 18, 2007
  10. ^ Lotus Symphony Buzz, Lotus Symphony Beta 2 Release Now Available, November 5, 2007
  11. ^ Lotus Symphony Buzz, Lotus Symphony Beta 3 Release Now Available, December 17, 2007
  12. ^ Lotus Symphony Buzz, Lotus Symphony Beta 3 Now Available in 23 Languages, January 7, 2008
  13. ^ Lotus Symphony Buzz, Lotus Symphony Beta 4 Has Arrived, February 1, 2008
  14. ^ Lotus Symphony Buzz, Symphony Beta 4 Code Update Now Available, March 3, 2008
  15. ^ Lotus Symphony Buzz, Announcing — IBM Lotus Symphony Version 1.0 is Now Available, May 30, 2008
  16. ^ Ed Brill, Lotus Symphony 1.1 is now available, August 29, 2008


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