Office Suite application
It’s been a while I use OpenOffice most of the time and some MS Excel at office, in my opinion MS Excel is the best spreadsheet and used extensively in my office.
Until recently I am just aware that Lotus Symphony is back. Yes ! That Symphony, was big brother of Lotus 123.
Looong time ago, this Symphony was great. The first Office suite in DOS text era (as far as I remember), and then came Aston-Tate’s Framework.
I just downloaded Lotus Symphony beta, not yet try it, and I am not sure whether it’s free or no; yet at the website I don’t see link about pricing.
So far we have some Office Suites,
- Microsoft Office, the well known, seems the de-facto standard. For Windows and OSX, but run uner Linux via Wine or Crossover
- Kingsoft Office, a China product with almost 100% compatibility to MS Office even the spreadsheet is like Excel, yet much cheaper and claimed to be faster in some areas. Windows only
- KOffice, from The Kompany, run on *nix flavour and for Windows is still under development. I don’t use much, as it’s quite different with other suite
- StarOffice, by Sun, the paying version of OpenOffice, but cheap, with some enhancements. Also has a User Portal site with some resources for OpenOffice, for most platforms including Windows and *nix
- Lotus Symphony, by IBM, not tried yet, but it should be good, and available for Windows and Linux
