Leadership By Numbers :: Lotus Symphony and Ubuntu are Best Products of 2008

Category Administration IBM/Lotus Linux

CRN has announced The Best Products of 2008 with Lotus Symphony and Ubuntu winning in their categories. Hot on the heels of IBM's latest announcement for a Microsoft-Free desktop, this CRN win solidifies IBM's credibility.

Symphony was noted as a suitable desktop replacement:

The Office 2007 installation here at the Test Center by default saves documents in the Office 97-2003 format (in the interest of backward-compatibility) so there were no problems editing files created in Symphony under Office 2007, or vice versa. The Test Center found Symphony a snap to use, and switching to Symphony after years of using Microsoft Office was painless.

Ubuntu was identified as a full-featured Desktop operating system:

Here's the bottom line: Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition easily ranks higher than any other Linux desktop operating system we've looked at in the Test Center. Based on performance numbers, its Ethernet and wireless management and zero licensing cost, this is an operating system that we can recommend to VARs-not just as an alternative to Windows but as a strong operating system in its own right.