Office Suites 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.
Corel: WordPerfect Office 2000 Low cost, full featured (WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Corel Presentations, CorelCENTRAL, Trellix, MS Visual Basic for Applications), mature, MS Office compatible, Windows.
Corel: WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux
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.
Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition discount Karlsnet.com sells ($4) information on how to get it for $99 direct from Microsoft.
Microsoft Office 2000: AssistantStore.com Custom 'Assistants with attitude' for MS Office 2000: download demos, buy full versions.
Microsoft Office: Suite101.com: Office 2000 Links, articles, help, resources for Microsoft Office 97/2000.
NewDeal Office Low cost, rich suite (NewWrite, NewCalc, NewFile, NewDraw, NewManager, NewBanker, CD Player, Skipper Web Browser, NewMail, Web Chat, Web Editor, NewBASIC Builder, GeoSafari Sampler), fast, fully integrated applications, runs well even on older PCs with small resources: any DOS 3.x (with/without MS Windows, or Linux, OS/2), i80286 CPU, 640K RAM, 10MB free disk space, MS Office compatible. Was Geoworks.
Microsoft Office Full featured (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher, Outlook), mature. The most common suite used in business, so it is the one other software must most often interoperate with.
Openoffice.org Open source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing and coordinating the technology for the popular StarOffice suite.
Siag Office Free, medium featured (PW, Siag, Egon, XedPlus, Gvu, Xfiler), Unix. Has sense of humor: word processor's name is Pathetic Writer.
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.
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.
Sun Microsystems: StarOffice: How to .com Star Office is a fully featured office suite including a word processor, presentation software and other standard office programs. Currently offered for free.
StarOffice Free office suite for Windows, OS/2, Linux and Sun systems. It really is free - for commercial and non-commercial use. Includes a wordprocessor, spreadsheet, presentation program - and can import/export to and from Microsoft Office.
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.