Similis is a translation memory tool that has been quite unknown to me up to now.
It is said to run on Windows, Unix and Linux and can handle MS Word, RTF, Excel, WordPerfect, PlainText, HTML, PDF, XML, SGML. A list of supported languages can be found here.
I am not quite sure if all languages and file formats listed are really supported. Some are bold, some are not, which makes me think that it is probably easy to customize the tool for the languages/formats that are not bold, while everything else is already integrated.
Their pricing policy is very interesting. You don’t buy a traditional licence as you usually do with other software products. The software itself is free, what you purchase instead are “cartridges”. A cartridge consists of 200,000 words, hence what you pay for is the number of words you translate with the tool. The cost per word is 0.001475 EURO and per cartridge 295 EURO.
This is quite interesting, especially for newbies or part-time translators. On the other side, other CAT tools with fixed prices are sometimes cheaper or not significantly higher priced.
