So Lotus Symphony has reached GA, and I have to say seems they’ve done a great job optimizing it when I compare the performance to the earlier beta releases. The product is freely available to anyone and supported for Linux (SLED/RedHat) and Windows (XP/Vista).
What makes this interesting over the standard OpenOffice distribution, is the the possibility to write Eclipse plugins to extends Symphony’s functionality. To get started doing that, just grab the SDK weighing in just over 8mb, which contains the developer guide and sample plugins along with instructions showing you how to set up your own Eclipse development environment.
Or you could just grab a few of the contributed plugins available already.
Disclaimer: I’m an IT Specialist for Lotus at IBM Belgium, mostly focusing on WebSphere Portal & Lotus Workplace Web Content Management