IBM Makes Competitor To Microsoft Office Available At No Cost

You can now download Lotus Symphony at no cost from IBM.

It isn't open source, but it does work on both Linux and Microsoft Windows. I'm sticking with Open Office.org, but it is good to have another option available to both platforms.

Could IBM be encouraged to make it Open Source? Maybe, but they haven't offered it as such so it doesn't look like that will be happening soon. When everyone was using Lotus 1-2-3 back in the 1980s, I was using Lotus Symphony... and back then I was using the GEM Desktop. I'll have to check it out and see what has changed in the last...

20 years.

Man, I'm getting old.