Lotus Symphony 1.1 Needs an Update

Summary:
Lotus Symphony 1.1 is a freely-available office productivity suite from IBM that brings together a trio of word processor, spreadsheet and presentation applications under a clean and well-implemented user interface.

IBM built Symphony's UI atop the Eclipse IDE and the firm's own Lotus Expeditor managed client application framework, and turned to the four-year-old OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 for the core of the suite's application lineup.

The result is a fairly good productivity suite with an interface that's much fresher—and a feature set that's more stale—than those that grace the OpenOffice.org 3.0 release I recently tested.