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I wonder if anyone wrote a free or open source version of Lotus Notes? I think IBM stopped supporting it after a while. It is a shame that IBM bought out Lotus

• smhenderson 10y ago
  I was going to link to IBM Lotus Symphony[1] in response to your question but it turns out it's only tangentially related to Notes, sharing some marketing names and, eventually, included with Notes (version 8 I think). Symphony was initially proprietary, then freeware and finally, in 2012, turned over to the ASF as a donation. It basically consisted of a typical spreadsheet, word processor, presentation suite all using ODF as a document format. So, not what I thought I would find but still slightly related to your question... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Symphony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Lotus_Symphony
  • stonogo 10y ago
    Symphony was Openoffice shoved into an Eclipse UI.
    • smhenderson 10y ago
      Hah, yeah, that's a good way to put it. For some reason I had it in my head that Notes got carried along with Symphony but it turns out it was the other way around with Symphony being given away as a free add on to Notes. I had the "pleasure" of using a Notes/Domino solution back in the mid 90's but it was only for a couple of months; when I joined they were most of the way through a migration to MS Exchange/Office. Can't say I loved/hated it with the same zeal as other posters, just didn't have enough time to form an opinion at the time.
• greedo 10y ago
  IBM still supports Lotus Notes. We just upgraded to Domino v9.