Lotus to port SmartSuite and Notes/Domino to Linux

In a U-turn that will be welcomed by all members of the Linux community who still have to use a Windows box to access Lotus Notes at work, Lotus has announced that it is looking into porting its SmartSuite and Notes/Domino suites of applications to Linux. It would also make SmartSuite open-source. This link was found on Linux Today. Unlike the analysts of the story, I believe this is a low-cost (type make) move which will be very lucrative to Lotus (many Linux users in Fortune 500 companies, have 2 PCs, one for the company standards of Notes/Office (Windows) and one to do real work on (Linux). For those that do not know SmartSuite, it's a pretty awesome suite of office applications, including Voice Recognition -- I really hope this too will be open-sourced: Lotus Organizer time and contact manager, Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, Lotus Freelance Graphics presentation graphics, Lotus Word Pro word processor, Lotus Approach database, Lotus ScreenCam multimedia, IBM ViaVoice for Word Pro and 1-2-3, Lotus Mail Internet e-mail.

update: "will port" to "looking into porting". However, given that the Strategy vice president said it was just a question of a recompile, if enough people want it it should happen.