I.B.M. Lotus Symphony is actually ... an OpenOffice.org clone !
IBM is announcing the desktop software, called I.B.M. Lotus Symphony, the programs will be available as free downloads from the I.B.M. Web site.
Its offerings are versions of open-source software developed in a consortium called OpenOffice.org. The original code traces its origins to a German company, Star Division, which Sun Microsystems bought in 1999. Sun later made the desktop software, now called StarOffice, an open-source project, in which work and code are freely shared.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/technology/
I.B.M.’s engineers have been working with OpenOffice technology for some time. But last week, I.B.M. declared that it was formally joining the open-source group, had dedicated 35 full-time programmers to the project and would contribute code to the initiative.