OpenOffice

Take an open-source approach to office productivity.

OpenOffice.org is a free alternative to the Microsoft Office application suite. OpenOffice.org contains everything necessary for working with electronic documents of various formats and includes a powerful text editor, spreadsheet applications, images, databases and other necessary tools.

It includes the following components:

• Writer (a text processor and an HTML editor)
• Calc (spreadsheets)
• Draw (an image editor)
• Impress (a presentation system)
• Math (a mathematical formula editor)
• Base (a database)

Concerning its features, OpenOffice.org is quite comparable with the well-known MS Office and beats it regarding the price. It is free.