The Side-bar in OpenOffice 4.* is the most visible indicator of IBM's contributions included from the Symphony code-base.Īlthough the retired software products will still work (and will continue to do so as long as the operating systems for which they were designed are still available) it was with a wistful grin that I remembered back to when I first started using PC's, when almost everyone of my vintage at one time was familiar with the "/" (slash) menus from 1-2-3, the spreadsheet that really proved the power of the PC in the workplace and began the PC revolution.
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In the intervening years, IBM had forked it's own version of OpenOffice to create Lotus Symphony, before making a significant donation back to the Apache Foundation of the code behind it. Many would already have been aware that - in reality - none of these products had received any significant updates for over a decade, so the announcement made last year was merely a formal indication that their time really was up, and customers using these products should move on. WFS means that a product will no longer receive any updates, nor will customers be able to request assistance for these products. WFM is the term used to signify that a product will no longer be available for purchase by customers. This - of course - followed on from the announcement that these iconic products would be withdrawn from marketing effective the 11th of June, 2013.
A quiet farewell Lotus 1-2-3, Organizer and Smartsuite Mat Newman Octo15:33:21Last week a fairly significant date passed without much fanfare: The Withdrawal From Support (WFS) for some of the best desktop software ever created in Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Organizer and the Lotus Smartsuite office package.
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