OpenOffice.org is a free and open source office suite, including word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, vector drawing and database components. It is available for many different platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Unix-like systems with the X Window System including GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. It is intended to be a compatible, free alternative to Microsoft Office. It supports the OpenDocument standard for data interchange.

OpenOffice.org is based on the codebase of StarOffice, an office suite developed by StarDivision (acquired by Sun Microsystems in August 1999). The source code of the suite was released as an open source project in July 2000 with the aim of breaking the market dominance of Microsoft Office by providing a lower-cost, high-quality, and open alternative. The source code for the application is available under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).


This is the office application i use instead of MS Office which is too expensive. It does similar things as MS Office and i think is better because of its additional features that you guys must see. You can open MS Office files with it and also create and save files in MS Office format.

Open Office download site: http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.3/index.html

Open Office Screenshoots: http://www.openoffice.org/screenshots/
Open Office Tutorials: http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/
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                                  http://www.learnopenoffice.org/tutorials.htm

Countries who agree with me  ;D:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6049
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/06/27/belgium_odf/<b r />