Gnome released version 2.20 of their desktop environment. No revolution in this release, but several enhancements that might make the users' life easier, as illustrated by this Evolution warning when sending a mail without attachments, but with the body text suggesting it should have; and the document viewer Evince now supports PDF forms.

IBM today released the beta version of Lotus Symphony, a productivity software containing a text processor, and spreadsheet and a presentation software. It working with OpenOffice's ODF format, but can read Microsoft Office files. This software is based on Eclipse' Rich Client Platform.

Will it be easier for this Eclipse based Office Suite to break into the entrerprise than it has been for OpenOffice/StarOffice? What's the added value of this proprietary software compared to OpenOffice, which is also backed by IBM? Will it bring some additional support to the Open Document Format? Time will tell, but the answer aren't very clear at the moment....