Well I did not mean to say that it was recent news, but I had only just read about it. Also, I said that it is mainly Outlook/Exchange (also OneNote) functions that I was most interested in. Neither of which are catered for by those programs.

I am surprised that MS Office Mobile is coming to Symbian, as surely that would kill any reason to use Windows Mobile for corporate users.

You question the need for MS Office Mobile for Maemo, and I would agree with you to a degree, but there the big missing thing is decent Outlook/Exchange support, which most of the enterprise world use. It would give Maemo a lot of strength to compete with Blackberry as well.

There is also nothing quite like OneNote (Evernote is good, but is not suitable for my use) but that is not quite as important as Outlook.

I'd be happy to consider any available alternatives, but there is no open software to compare to Outlook.