The OpenOffice.org version of Lotus Symphony, offering free document, presentation, and spreadsheet functionality, is now available:
IBM Lotus Symphony Documents
- Easy to create documents with predefined document templates
- Fast formatting with predefined styles for paragraphs, characters, and headings
- Contextual toolbars and editing menus
- Inline spell checking and correction
- Graphics that you can insert to create a variety of tables, charts, diagrams, and drawn items
- Automatic creation of a table of contents, footnotes, indexes and footers and headers
- Support for a variety of file types, including Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite
- Export documents to Adobe PDF for easy sharing
IBM Lotus Symphony Presentations
- Easy to create presentations from scratch or from preconfigured presentation masters
- Single, tabbed user interface to launch all Lotus Symphony applications and access all open document types
- Easy to manage formatting for slides, text boxes, drawing objects and graphics
- Slide show flow and timing control
- Support for charts, tables, drawing objects, and graphics
- Animation for graphics and slide transition effects
- Support for a variety of file types including Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite
- Export documents to Adobe PDF or HTML format for easy sharing
IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets
- Easy to create new spreadsheets or use built-in spreadsheet templates
- Single, tabbed user interface to launch all Lotus Symphony applications and access all open document types
- Large library of mathematical functions that can be applied to cells
- Robust formatting of text, cells, and spreadsheets
- Formula evaluator to edit complex equations used in spreadsheets
- Data table offers pivot table functionality
- Support for tracking changes as you edit and revise spreadsheets
- Support for a variety of file types including Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite
- Export documents to Adobe PDF for easy sharing
The good news? It's free. (And there's a Linux version available.) The bad? It's based on OpenOffice.org. IBM's Web site is a joke.