Symphony Documents opened our existing Microsoft Word files with no problem. But the learning curve for any user should be short, as IBM Lotus Symphony's menus and toolbars are intuitive. Still, there are enough differences between Microsoft's suite and this one to give newcomers pause as they attempt to locate functions. The feature set and cosmetics of the three applications mirrors Lotus's Symphony office suite from the 1990s, and the look and feel will be familiar to any Office user. Unlike Microsoft Office, which makes you launch its applications separately, the entire IBM Lotus Symphony suite opens in a single window, with a tabbed interface that integrates all three applications.
IBM doesn't offer direct tech support for IBM Lotus Symphony instead, it has set up an online user support community to which an IBM support team contributes. In our initial tests we found that IBM Lotus Symphony launched slowly and had noticeable lags with some tasks when operating on a PC with 512MB of RAM, but it ran at a clip on a 1GB system. It requires a minimum of 540MB of hard disk space on Windows (750MB on Linux) and 512MB of RAM. The IBM Lotus Symphony suite is available as a free download. When we signed up for an ID (which is free) we were honest about being in Australia, and successfully downloaded, installed and ran the beta.Įach IBM Lotus Symphony application can open and save in a variety of file formats including Office (2003/XP/) and ODF (Open Document Format), as well as save files as PDFs. Right now, on the Lotus Symphony site it suggests that the IBM Lotus Symphony suite beta requires an IBM ID, and that the user is based in the US.
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