Just heard the news that IBM’s launched a free office suite called Lotus Symphony. I’m currently installing it; apparently the entire package is based on Eclipse, which should make for an interesting environment. Since I do most of my development in Eclipse, it’ll be interesting to see how they’ve expanded on the IDE to create an office suite inside it.

The site was a bit slow for me earlier, so here’s the direct link to the IBM signin page, which was significantly faster than the Lotus site. To install, run the IBM_Lotus_Symphony_w32.exe file, then run setup.exe from the same folder.