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Office Suites

Software suites are bundles of several programs together that perform essential, common, functions in some area of activity. Many types of suites exist, for varied uses, most of which are vertical applications: accounting, manufacturing, real estate, some area of science, etc.

Office Suites are the most common and general type of software suite. They are bundles of several programs together that perform essential, common office functions. They usually include a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, some kind of data base, and likely other features such as drawing/charting programs, calendar management, email, a web browser, and generic office management services other than those listed.

Sites in Office Suites

Andrew User Interface System
Free, medium featured (word processor; HTML, program and drawing editors; directory and help browsers; spreadsheet; mail/bulletin-board manager; application builder; scripting language), Unix. Open source.

SimDesk Technologies, Inc.
STI offers a suite of office productivity tools accessed through the Internet. SimDesk contains software applications for word processing, data management, spreadsheets, personal scheduling, data communications, e-mail, and other business-to-business services.

Gobe Software, Inc.
Productivity suite for Windows with word processing, graphics, image processing, spreadsheets, charting, presentation and page layout.

VistaSource: Applixware
Low cost, full featured (Words, Spreadsheets, Data, Presents, Graphics, Mail, Builder, Document Filters), MS Office compatible; Windows, Unix/Linux.

Seacrest Business Systems, Inc.
Provides Office software for the IBM AS/400.

Siag Office
Free, medium featured (PW, Siag, Egon, XedPlus, Gvu, Xfiler), Unix. Has sense of humor: word processor's name is Pathetic Writer.

Axene, Inc.
Free, medium featured (XAllWrite, XQuad, Xclamation, XMayday), Linux, Unix; English, French, German, Spanish. Trial downloads.

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.

e-press corp.: EasyOffice 2001
Free and low cost, medium featured (EasyWord, EasySpreadsheet, EasyPresentation, Easy Contact Manager, Easy Web Page Creator, Easy Bookkeeper, Easy Speaker (voice recognition), Easy Bar Coder, Easy Help), MS Office compatible; Windows; English, (Pending: Chinese Simplified/Traditional, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish). Free downloads. Extremely easy to use.

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.

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.

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, and export documents/images to PDF/JPEG/XHTML.

Softease Ltd
Word processing, spreadsheet, database and desktop publishing solutions.

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.