IBM Lotus Symphony

IBM has entered the office suite software fray in a big way with Lotus Symphony, their brand new suite of free apps, which includes a word processor, a presentation program and a spread sheet program. Symphony is based on the Open Document Format standard, and will read and export to Microsoft formats, as well as exporting documents as Adobe PDF files. Currently it’s available for Windows and Linux operating systems, with Mac to follow.

This cost free alternative to MS Office has got to interest firms, large or small, that will now be paying significant dollars each year for Word et al. I’d be interested in hearing reports from anyone who’s given it a spin.