“In recent years, open-source alternatives to Office have matured to the point where IT managers are beginning to investigate the viability of moving from the Microsoft Corp. suite to a license-free alternative. So when eWEEK Corporate Partner Ed Benincasa shared his desire to perform a user-based comparison between the OpenOffice.org project’s OpenOffice.org suite and Microsoft’s Office 2003, we saw a perfect opportunity to compare the suites under real-world conditions.”

This is a great article and it is the same thing I am looking at for our small office. We don’t need the features of Microsoft Office 2003 and instead of sticking it out with Office 97 I am going to implement OpenOffice.Org to save on the budget. It’s a good non-biased read that looks at what IT people are facing.