Office Suite Software Directory

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.

Andrew User Interface System - Free, medium featured (word processor; HTML, program and drawing editors; directory and help browsers; spreadsheet; mail/bulletin-board manager; application builder; scripting language), Unix. Open source.

Axene, Inc. - Free, medium featured (XAllWrite, XQuad, Xclamation, XMayday), Linux, Unix; English, French, German, Spanish. Trial downloads.

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.

Gobe Software, Inc. - Productivity suite for Windows with word processing, graphics, image processing, spreadsheets, charting, presentation and page layout.

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.

Seacrest Business Systems, Inc. - Provides Office software for the IBM AS/400.

Siag Office - Free, medium featured (PW, Siag, Egon, XedPlus, Gvu, Xfiler), Unix. Has sense of humor: word processor's name is Pathetic Writer.

SimDesk Technologies, Inc. - STI offers a suite of office productivity tools accessed through the Internet. SimDesk contains software applications for word processing, data management, spreadsheets, personal scheduling, data communications, e-mail, and other business-to-business services.

Softease Ltd - Word processing, spreadsheet, database and desktop publishing solutions.

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, and export documents/images to PDF/JPEG/XHTML.

Sun Microsystems: StarOffice - Free, full featured (StarOffice Writer, Calc, Base, Impress, Draw, Schedule, Mail, Discussion); MS Office compatible; Windows, Unix/Linux, OS/2. StarOffice home page.

STB Office System: Virtual Office - Software for office and 'virtual office' management; services include: accounting, inventory, customer relationship/account management (CRM), project management, time registration, document control.

ThinkFree - Free, small, medium featured (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, address book, e-mail client, file manager), use online or offline: promoted as usable from any computer with a web browser. MS Office compatible. Windows, UNIX/Linux.

VistaSource: Applixware - Low cost, full featured (Words, Spreadsheets, Data, Presents, Graphics, Mail, Builder, Document Filters), MS Office compatible; Windows, Unix/Linux.