In one of the largest enterprise-mandated migrations away from Microsoft's Office suite ever,
Linux Magazine and German sources report that 360,000 IBM workers have been ordered to switch from Office to IBM's own Lotus Symphony suite. Symphony isn't open source, but it is free, and is deeply rooted in open source, originally based on OpenOffice code. Apparently, the employees have only ten days to switch, and Open Document Format (ODF) will become the standard file format at IBM, replacing .doc files. The German economic newspaper Handelsblatt also reports that 330,000 IBM workers already use Symphony.
