One of the more interesting announcements for me at Lotusphere 2010 was Lotus Symphony 3. While I have know about a few things here or there, the name was a bit of a shock. But I like it. So yes, Lotus Symphony is jumping a version number. This is being done to align the version numbers with the version of the OpenOffice.org code base it is based from. I think its a good idea.
If you made it to the session "ID 612 IBM Lotus® Symphony⢠Overview and Update" Session, they had some great slides on what is new in Symphony 3, otherwise know as "Vienna". I wanted to share those details with everyone who was not at the session. Here is the new features slide from that presentation:
But let's break down the new features in each application with a bit more detail:
Lotus Symphony Documents
Master Document Support
Richer Fields
Nested Table Support
New comments/notes
Numbers & bullets enhancement
Multi-page View
Export to PDF enhancements
Business card & Labels Templates and support in Mail Merge
Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets
1024 Columns
Sheet specific Zoom
Right to Left Layout
Mutli-select Sheet
Two new chart types
New Chart visual effect
Reverse Axis
Handle missing data points
VBA support (run-time only, will support about 75% of the VBA commands in the first release of the run-time)
Text to column
Move columns/rows
Detective
Solver & Solver Equation
What-if & Multiple Operations
Lotus Symphony Presentations
Easy Slide show options
Easy Slide view mode switch
Multi-monitor support
Hardware Acceleration for Slideshow Graphics
Easy Templates
New properties sidebar
Sidebar tab management
Improvements to Text and Properties, including text blocks on angles and rotation
Improved and added functionality to Drawing Object Properties
Support for Video and Audio
Picture cropping
Export Slide names as PDF bookmarks
Navigation (tab) order of page objects
Easier to insert background picture
Export a picture
New Animations
Much Better Tables within text blocks on a slide
General Features
ODF 1.2 Support (yeah!)
Support for embedded OLE objects within Lotus Symphony
Signed Plug-ins
Add-in Installer for Notes 8.5.1 (and 8.5.2 if necessary ) just like Sametime 8.5 Connect client for Notes 8.5.1
Improvements to the Microsoft Office 2007 Format support
Improvements to Microsoft Office general interoperability
More interoperability with OpenOffice.org features
Lots of improvements on graphic objects display and refresh
Major work on performance and stability
More work on User Experience with the Sidebars
Enhancements to the Java and LotusScript APIs, including Presentations functionality
Because of the major move of Lotus Symphony 3 being based off of the OpenOffice.org 3.X code base, a few features current in Lotus Symphony 1.3 have not made the transition over. Those include:
Freehand Tables
SmartSuite Filters
The SmartSuite filters should come back in the next release after "Vienna", known today as Symphony 'Amsterdam' later in 2010.
So what is missing? Save to Office 2007 is the big thing missing ... but at this point, Lotus should probably wait for Office 2010 to ship and do a Save to Office 2010/2007 in a future version of Lotus Symphony.
Lotus Symphony 3 should be in beta (stand-alone only) very soon now with release in the second quarter of 2010.
New Media Tuesday - 3/16/2010
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Reminder: OpenNTF.org IP Working Group Open Call Tomorrow!
Thu, Feb 25th 2010 4:31p John Head The first quarterly call will be tomorrow, Friday, February 26th 2010 at 10 AM Eastern. The agenda is that I will present our goals and top tasks for 2010 and then open the floor to comments and questions to anyone on the call. To access the call in info, go here. [read] Keywords: openntf
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Today is Paczki Day!
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