
Just as important, Lotus also plans to release a version of its free Symphony productivity suite for Macs, according to the report. Based on OpenOffice.org code, Symphony was released for Windows and Linux last September.
As on Windows, Microsoft Office is well entrenched on the Mac but having a free suite option is likely to attract many users. A significant uptake could also have an effect on the tussle between Microsoft and rivals over file formats as Symphony supports the ODF format that competes against the Microsoft-backed Office Open XML.