IBM to realign Symphony with Apache OpenOffice

[ Thanks to Amy Bennett for this link. ]

"This one didn't go quite the way I thought it might: it turns out that, as I speculated back in October, IBM is indeed dropping production of its Lotus Symphony office suite, ending a five-year run on the Microsoft Office alternative.

"According to a brief blog post last week from IBM's Ed Brill, the latest release of Symphony, 3.0.1, is also likely to be the last, ending IBM's fork of the OpenOffice code. "

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