Are you a small business owner? need to save as much as possible for your business startup cost? Microsoft office for business to expensive for you? There’s an alternative solution. and it’s FREE! Although there’s some commercial office suite alternative to Microsoft. But believe it or not, in this case FREE is BETTER! ( There’s some office software in the market which is no better than OpenOffice.org ), since OpenOffice.org are the better and contributed by many well known company in IT industries.
OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org The free office suite, is an alternative to Microsoft office suite, can be download and use for free. OpenOffice provides most people need in an office productivity suite. It is stable, reliable, and robust, built up over twenty years’ development. Unlike its major competitor, it was designed from the start as a single piece of software, which makes for higher quality software and a more consistent user experience. It is actively developed, with several releases every year. The main components of the OpenOffice.org Suite are the Writer word processor, the Calc spreadsheet. Impress for presentations, Draw for graphics, and the Base database.
OpenOffice.org is both easy to use and easy to migrate to, for both experienced and beginners alike. It has a familiar user interface, and is able to read and write the vast majority of legacy file formats (including common Microsoft Office formats). It is supported in over seventy languages, with active support both Community based (free) and from commercial organisations (paid-for).
OpenOffice.org is released under an open-source licence (the LGPL), which means it may be used free of any licence fees, for any purpose: private, governmental, commercial, etc. Once acquired (either as a free download or as a CD) it may be installed on an unlimited number of computers, and may be copied and distributed without restriction. OpenOffice.org supports extensions, allowing users to add on extra functions easily from an extensions repository. This is a key differentiator from the competition.
OpenOffice.org is a mature software product, tracing its origins back over twenty years to a commercial software house in Germany, StarDivision. Following the acquisition of StarDivision by Sun Microsystems in April 1999, OpenOffice.org version 1.0 was released as open-source software on May 1st 2002. It proved hugely successful, and after more than 49 million recorded downloads, version 2.0 was released on 20th October 2005. OpenOffice.org 2 removed the last barriers to migration with a new user interface, improved support for competitors’ file formats, and a new integrated database component. It also became the first office suite to support the new OpenDocument Format for office applications (ODF) natively. ODF was adopted as an ISO standard on May 1st 2006 and is the only office document format to be approved at this level. OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released in October 2008, and recorded 60 million downloads from the OpenOffice.org download site alone before the release of the current version, 3.1, in May 2009.
To download or more information about OpenOffice.org office suite. Visit http://www.openoffice.org/
I personally tend to favour SSuite Office’s free office suites. Their software also don’t need to run on Java or .NET, like so many open source office suites, so it makes their software very small and efficient.
http://www.ssuitesoft.com