IBM Lotus Symphony saw 100,000 downloads in first week of free release

IBM Lotus Symphony saw 100,000 downloads in first week of free release

IBM recently launched their Lotus Symphony office suite application as a free download. The company aims to complement existing freeware products like OpenOffice to provide a challenger to market dominating Microsoft Office suite.

The company has now stated that the suite has been already downloaded more than 100,000 times since its release.

Mike Rhodin, general manager of both IBM Collaboration and Lotus Software added in a statement: “To be honest, we were surprised at the speed with which people jumped on this.”

IBM had to in fact increase the number of servers providing the download to meet this excessive demand.

The software has been release for the Windows and Linux platform. Reviews are however not very encouraging as the software is said to be very slow compared to alternatives.

However, the company continues to improve the quality of the application and plans to release a second beta of Symphony in the next six to eight weeks. The first final stable edition is expected to be released sometime early next year.

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