Office Suite products &
software
VistaSource:
Applixware
Low cost, full featured (Words,
Spreadsheets, Data, Presents, Graphics, Mail, Builder,
Document Filters), MS Office compatible; Windows, Unix/Linux.
Siag
Office
Free, medium featured (PW,
Siag, Egon, XedPlus, Gvu, Xfiler), Unix. Has sense of
humor: word processor's name is Pathetic Writer.
Axene,
Inc.
Free, medium featured (XAllWrite,
XQuad, Xclamation, XMayday), Linux, Unix; English, French,
German, Spanish. Trial downloads.
Softease:
Textease Studio
Medium cost, medium featured
(Textease: 2000/Primary, Spreadsheet, Database), Acorn,
Macintosh, Windows; English, other languages. Demonstrator
downloads. Originally made for schools, but growing
use among adults. World's easiest to use office suite?
Ability
Office 2000
Low cost, full featured (Write,
Spreadsheet, Database, Photopaint), very good photo-editor.
Evaluation download. Modules available separately. DOS,
Windows, Linux port underway.
e-press
corp.: EasyOffice 2001
Free and low cost, medium
featured (EasyWord, EasySpreadsheet, EasyPresentation,
Easy Contact Manager, Easy Web Page Creator, Easy Bookkeeper,
Easy Speaker (voice recognition), Easy Bar Coder, Easy
Help), MS Office compatible; Windows; English, (Pending:
Chinese Simplified/Traditional, French, German, Japanese,
Portuguese, Spanish). Free downloads. Extremely easy
to use.
IBM:
Lotus: SmartSuite
Low cost, full featured (WordPro,
1-2-3, Approach, FastSite, Freelance, Organizer, SmartCenter,
ScreenCam), mature, MS Office compatible, Windows, OS/2
Warp, free evaluation. One of first suites to be Web-oriented.
Software602:
602Pro PC SUITE
Free, compact, medium featured
(602Text, 602Tab, 602Photo), MS Office compatible. One
of first free suites. Add-ons: Spelling, Thesaurus,
Photo Albums, organize documents/images with 602Desk,
print Bar Codes, export documents/images to PDF/JPEG/XHTML,
more.
