IBM Wants To Contribute Through Lotus Symphony

[DaveD]

Found this link which refers to Lotus Symphony 2009-10 Roadmap, but also states how IBM wants to contribute back to OOo.

http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/john ... blog-entry

Lotus Symphony 2.0 is the release many of you are waiting for. This is the release where Lotus Symphony will move from the 1.1.6 OpenOffice.org source to the current 3.X source code. While this is not official, I have it on good authority that IBM not only wants to move to the current code base and contribute back, but they are structuring this move so that they can consume and contribute to the core code base on a regular basis. Lotus Symphony won't be forked again. This is a true move by IBM to make Lotus Symphony an active and current part of the OpenOffice.org community. It will be interesting to see if the OpenOffice.org community uses these contributions in the core product.

Of course, 2010 is still a ways away...

[Fiachra6]

Found this link which refers to Lotus Symphony 2009-10 Roadmap, but also states how IBM wants to contribute back to OOo.

http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/john ... blog-entry

Lotus Symphony 2.0 is the release many of you are waiting for. This is the release where Lotus Symphony will move from the 1.1.6 OpenOffice.org source to the current 3.X source code. While this is not official, I have it on good authority that IBM not only wants to move to the current code base and contribute back, but they are structuring this move so that they can consume and contribute to the core code base on a regular basis. Lotus Symphony won't be forked again. This is a true move by IBM to make Lotus Symphony an active and current part of the OpenOffice.org community. It will be interesting to see if the OpenOffice.org community uses these contributions in the core product.

Of course, 2010 is still a ways away...

Maybe IBM could contribute a lot, but when last I looked, Lotus Symphony only contained a word processor, a spread sheet program, and a presentation program. It really isn't anything in comparison with OOo, but then again OOo could always do with a bit of help.

[TheGurkha]

They're talking about the new Lotus Symphony which is based on OOo.

See the bottom of this page: IBM Lotus Symphony.