IBM Lotus Symphony is a discontinued suite of applications for creating, editing, and sharing text, spreadsheet, presentations, and other documents and browsing the World Wide Web.
[11] Symphony is based on Eclipse Rich Client Platform from IBM Lotus Expeditor (the shell) and OpenOffice.org 3 (the core office-suite code).
[15] Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 added enhancements including support for one million spreadsheet rows, bubble charts, and a new design for the home page.
In 2006, IBM introduced Workplace Managed Client version 2.6, which included "productivity tools"—a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation program—that supported ODF.
[26] IBM released version 1.0 of Lotus Symphony in May 2008 as a free download, and introduced three minor upgrades through 2008 and 2009.
[27] Symphony 3.0 was based on OpenOffice.org 3.0, though not under the LGPL but under a special arrangement between IBM and Sun (who required copyright assignment of all outside OpenOffice.org contributions).
[27][28][29][30][31] and includes enhancements such as new sidebars in its user interface and support for Visual Basic for Applications macros,[19] OpenDocument Format 1.2, and OLE.