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Symphony was based on an old OpenOffice code base and is now dead. IBM is joining the Apache OpenOffice project and will be releasing their own IBM branded Open

• shrikant 15y ago
  This is good to know, thanks! The open productivity suite space needed some meaty corporate backing after Oracle's abandonment of OpenOffice.org, and it would've been disappointing to see a biggie like IBM further fragment the OpenOffice/LibreOffice scene. Instead they're picking a side to back with their considerable resources. This can only be a good thing (unless of course they go down the "embrace, extend, extinguish" path..)