rev 16 September 2011

LibreOffice

License: Open Source

Description: Don’t want to pay $150+ for Microsoft Office? LibreOffice is a free, multi-platform office suite, recently forked from OpenOffice, and much improved.

Scribus

License: Open Source

Description: Scribus is a desktop publishing program, similar in nature to Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Publisher, or Quark Xpress, but rather than being an expensive commercial program, it’s a multi-platform, open-source program available free of charge.

AbiWord

License: Open Source

Description: AbiWord is a small, fast, standalone word processor for a variety of platforms. It’s not an integrated solution like OpenOffice, but gets the job done, depending on your needs

Gnumeric

License: Open Source

Description: Gnumeric is a standalone spreadsheet application written for the Gnome desktop and ported to Windows. It is fast and accurate.

GanttProject

License: Open Source

Description: This is customizable software that allows for easy creation of Gantt charts (scheduling charts, esp. for software writing).

Dia

License: Open Source

Description: Essentially the open-source competitor to Microsoft Visio, Dia allows the user to make organizational charts or diagrams of just about anything. This link is for the Windows version of Dia. The regular page can be found here.