| Microsoft Office is an incredibly powerful program | | | | community comes together at to develop, |
| with many great features. It's also expensive to | | | | support, and promote the use of |
| buy or even upgrade. For example, one | | | | OpenOffice.org.What do you get for |
| well-known web site has Microsoft Office 2003 | | | | free?OpenOffice.org has historically consisted for a |
| Standard for $369.40 and 2003 Professional for | | | | word processor, a multimedia presentation |
| $469.00. Even the Office Standard 2003 Upgrade | | | | program, a draw program and a spreadsheet |
| Version lists for $226.80However, there's a great | | | | program, In October, OpenOffice.org released a |
| alternative available called OpenOffice 2.0. It has | | | | long-awaited version 2.0 for Windows, Mac and |
| nearly all the same features and functionality as | | | | Linux, adding a new database module, support for |
| MS Office but costs a lot less. In fact, it's | | | | the OpenDocument file format, a fresh user |
| free.OpenOffice.org is both a fully-featured office | | | | interface, and plenty of other improvements.But |
| suite compatible with leading office products, and | | | | the license is still the same. You can download |
| a virtual community working through | | | | OpenOffice.org Version 2. |
| OpenOffice.org's numerous projects. The | | | | |