Re: [libreoffice-users] Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice

C <smaug42 -AT- gmail.com>

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:54:52 +0200

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 08:18, Mark Stanton wrote:

A side note really, but that's quite a leap to suggest that Symphony
has anything to do with OO.

Lotus wrote Symphony, maybe coming on 25 years ago now.  I worked
with one of the four (I think) guys who wrote it for a while.  One of
the dinosaurs that died out, the tightly integrated office suite.

It's not a leap... the current incarnation of IBM's Lotus Symphony actually is based on OpenOffice.org. http://www-03.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/help.nsf/GeneralFAQ#1 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+help@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted

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