IBM have announced that their suite of office applications called Lotus Symphony will be offered for download free of charge.

Symphony is made up of 3 applications: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets and Lotus Symphony Presentations. Available in Linux and on Windows, Lotus Symphony supports multiple file formats including Microsoft Office and Open Document Format (ODF), and also can output content in PDF format.

This annoucement follows IBM recently membership in OpenOffice.org and intent to make important technical and resource contributions to the OpenOffice suite.

You can find out more here.