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According to an article at Information Week, IBM has decided to join forces with OpenOffice.org, to improve the software, and (hopefully) help it to gain some traction.

They will be releasing a free office suite called Lotus Symphony, which is essentially going to be an IBM branded version of OpenOffice.  Despite Microsoft's clear dominance in this field, lots of businesses still use IBM products, and with IBM pushing this free alternative to Microsoft's Office Suite they just might persuade more business to seriously consider OpenOffice as a platform.

Overall I think this is a very good thing, and a possible move towards an open standard that is sorely needed in this market.