Usage Share
During the Lotusphere event in 2009, IBM confirmed its cost-reduction effort using Lotus Symphony, with the company migrating its 400,000 users from Microsoft Office to Lotus Symphony.
In June 2008 IBM urged its 20 000 'strong-techies' employees to use Symphony instead of Microsoft Office and later in September 2009 IBM forced all 360 000 employees to use Symphony. 20.0
In March 2009 a study showed that Lotus Symphony had a 2% market share in the corporate market.
In the same week of the release of Windows 7 (October 2009), IBM and Canonical announced that they want to sell Ubuntu with Lotus including Symphony.
As of February 2010 IBM stated that Lotus Symphony had 12 million users with 50 million downloads in January 2011.
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