Lotus Symphony 1.1 is a freely-available office productivity suite from IBM that brings together a trio of word processor, spreadsheet and presentation applications under a Big Blue label. Symphony's interface is new, based on Eclipse, but its internals are old, based on OpenOffice.org 1.1.4; the result is a fairly good productivity suite with an interface that's much fresher-and a feature set that's more stale-than those that grace the OpenOffice.org 3.0 release I recently tested.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Lotus Symphony 1.1 - Pluggable
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There are a handful of plug-ins available for Symphony that benefit from Eclipse's module update framework, and I'm looking forward to seeing where Symphony developers at IBM and elsewhere take the platform.

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