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IBM to contribute Symphony to OpenOffice.orgIBM to contribute Symphony to OpenOffice.orgPosted Jul 14, 2011 17:54 UTC (Thu) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736)Parent article: IBM to contribute Symphony to OpenOffice.org
I'd be happy to take a look at Symphony on my linux box, but it's completely opaque as to how to get the damn thing to run.
I finally found something called '/opt/ibm/lotus/Symphony/framework/rcp/rcplauncher' and tried running that, but it complained about my home directory being NFS mounted, told me that I should set a 'nonpersistent' setting some place to avoid it cacheing, and threw an exception trace.
I have no idea how to configure settings in the thing, and IBM's Symphony page is itself opaque next to almost any open source product. No 'Documentation' link, e.g.
The only reason that I even knew to look for a 'nonpersistent' setting is that I ran it from the command line. If I tried using the Freedesktop launcher icon, it didn't visibly do anything at all.
I used OS/2 back in the day, and this kind of user unfriendly software experience is very familiar to me. It's disappointing that IBM still can't
By having a 'bin' directory, say.
It's pretty obvious why Symphony has gotten wholly overlooked in the Linux world, guys.
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IBM to contribute Symphony to OpenOffice.org Posted Jul 14, 2011 18:12 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] By having a 'bin' directory, say.Or even, radical idea, by just working if your home directory is NFS-mounted, like every other piece of Linux and Unix software out there. I can understand not wanting to run over NFS if you're a massive relational database, but for anything else there is just no excuse.
IBM to contribute Symphony to OpenOffice.org Posted Jul 14, 2011 18:40 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
actually, massive relational databases (like Oracle) don't complain about running over NFS, in fact, I've had cases where that has been the vendor recommended configuration (the performance will depend heavily on your NFS server, and you don't want to have multiple systems accessing the data over NFS at the same time... but it can work very well under the right conditions)
IBM to contribute Symphony to OpenOffice.org Posted Jul 14, 2011 23:08 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Oh yes, of course. Sorry, the last time I installed a big Oracle DB was so long ago (2002? something like that) that direct I/O was still the preferred-verging-on-mandatory I/O method.
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