Lotus Symphony 1.0 now available

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.