Whenever you want to jot down some notes, scribble some ideas or plot a chart to explain a cost reduction project for your company, what do you do? You turn on your monitor, and start looking for Microsoft Words, Excel or PowerPoint. But, is that THE ONLY option we have? For 90% of computer users, the answer is Yes, Of Course, Definitely. The other 9% of people would say OpenOffice is better? It's free, and enhanceable.

Today, I would like to introduce you another competitor for the OfficeSuite - IBM's own Lotus Symphony. It's free, it doesn't run on Java (Slows down computer) and it open documents in tabs, has ODT support and a lot of nice feats. I'll love to port it into Ubuntu (my fav desktop OS) so that the community might have more choices to use.

From installation till my 1st trial, everything is quite smooth, no hiccups detected so far despite being a beta.(not like Safari's web browser that I file a bug 3 hours after it's launch. So, why wait when you can get the better, most updated(17th Sept '07) and free Office Suite which you can install in unlimited number of computers, and not to worry about licensing as it is GPL/OpenBSD (correct me if i'm wrong).

For FAQs and Installation Guide visit [IBM Lotus Symphony]

p/s: OpenOffice 2.3 has just released as we are speaking, grab it now and be the first to brag about it.

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