IBM to offer Lotus Symphony for free

US based tech company IBM has announced that they would now challenge Microsoft’s MS Office productivity suite with their own free application package.

IBM plans to offer Lotus Symphony for free and it would come loaded with word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software.

With this they would join Google which is offering their own online office productivity suite which currently comes with a word processor and a spreadsheet application.

IBM also recently announced that they were going to support OpenOffice.org package which is a full functional open source office productivity suite.

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