Office Suite: OpenOffice
by The EditorOpen Office is a multi-platform office suite for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and others.
From the Open Office website:
As the name suggests, OpenOffice.org is the most open office suite available:
- no commercial licences or software compliance issues to worry about
- no language barriers - if it’s not yet available in your language, the chances are it will be soon
- available on all major computing platforms
- the first office suite to comply with the OASIS OpenDocument format
- the source code for the software is freely available under a full OSI certified licenceOpenOffice.org is synonymous with quality
- the roots of OpenOffice.org go back twenty years, creating a huge wealth of experience
- hundreds of thousands of users have participated in the beta testing of version 2
- with a fully open development process, OpenOffice.org has nothing to hide - the product stands or falls on its reputationOpenOffice.org is friendly:
- the software looks and feels familiar and is instantly usable by anyone who has used a competitive product
- it’s easy to change to OpenOffice.org - the software reads all major competitors’ files
- OpenOffice.org is supported by a global community of friendly volunteers, only too happy to provide assistance to newcomers and advanced users alike

