“For the price of $450 you can pick up a copy of Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition bundled with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher and Outlook. There are other Office applications out there that can save you not only half a thousand bucks, but also the hassle of having to go through a whole activation scheme. OpenOffice.org is an office application that does just that; competes with the hefty priced MS Office and does a fair job at it. According to OpenOffice.org… “ OpenOffice.org] is both an open-source application and project. It is free. The product is a multi-platform office productivity suite compatible with all major file formats.? Because OpenOffice.org can handle Word and other MS Office file formats, it does offer an attraction to users that wish to save money. OpenOffice.org features Writer to compete with Word, Calc which competes with Excel, and Impress ? which is a presentation utility just like PowerPoint. OpenOffice.org includes other applications, yet no email client is integrated.” [ Read the review from Flexbeta ]