(An SGA is an agreement by which a code base developed outside of Apache is contributed to Apache under specified licensing terms.) Since the areas that IBM improved Symphony are also areas of interest for OpenOffice users, and for 3rd party products based on OpenOffice, the Apache OpenOffice project was glad to receive this contribution. IBM contributed the source code for Symphony to Apache, via a Software Grant Agreement (SGA). Last May IBM decided to end that fork and combine their development effort with the Apache OpenOffice project. Symphony was developed with technology, essentially a fork of OpenOffice. IBM Lotus Symphony is an IBM licensed derivative of OpenOffice, offered at no charge, which IBM enhanced for their customer and corporate use.
Learn how the Apache OpenOffice volunteer community is doing this, and how this will benefit users of OpenOffice as well as developers who build upon OpenOffice. Interoperability, performance, accessibility improvements, as well as exciting new user interface elements are in the works. Improvements, courtesy of IBM and their Lotus Symphony effort.
The symphony is about to begin.Īpache OpenOffice will soon have some new features and other The house lights flash Please take your seats.
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