dsh <daniel.hais...@googlemail.com> wrote on 06/04/2011 07:53:54 AM: > Andreas, > > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Andreas Kuckartz <a.kucka...@ping.de> wrote: > > I also notice that IBM currently does not sell Lotus Symphony but makes > > binaries available for free: > > http://www.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony > > > > Although you can download IBM Lotus Symphony for free it is still > licensed as an IBM commercial product using a particular license (ILAN > [1]). Besides that IBM Lotus Symphony is part of IBM LotusLive [2] so > the product is certainly a bit more than just the Eclipse-based client > (actually it uses a variation of Eclipse called IBM Lotus Expeditor > [3]) that one can download for free. > > [1] http://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/viewbla/ > [2] https://www.lotuslive.com/ > [3] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Expeditor >
Since this was an IBM-directed question, I'm wearing my IBM hat here. LotusLive Symphony only shares the Symphony brand. It is a set of web-based collaborative editors. It is not derived from the OpenOffice.org code. But since many customers want heterogenous access to desktop and cloud editors, we want to maintain strength in both. But you are correct in saying that we've been using the core OpenOffice/Symphony code in several ways, as standalone editors, as imbedded in Expeditor, the related embedded version in Notes, etc. I'd like to see the Apache OpenOffice project enable this type of embedding be more prevalent. It is end-user facing, obviously, but embedded in other applications, as well as standalone. I think this is something that is uniquely enabled by open source. We give away the free version, as mentioned. We also sell support and bundle it with proprietary products. We also have partnerships with laptop vendors to pre-load Symphony. I'm not saying this to sell IBM's commercial business. But I did want to demonstrate that we have a strong business interest in seeing this project thrive. Our business interests are aligned with the success of this project. -Rob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
