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The currently dominant office suite is Microsoft Office, which is available for Microsoft Windows and the Apple Macintosh. It has become a proprietary de-facto standard in office software.
An alternative is any of the OpenDocument suites, that use the free OpenDocument file format, defined by ISO/IEC 26300. The most prominent of these is OpenOffice.org *, open-source software that is available for Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and other platforms. OpenOffice.org supports many of the features of Microsoft Office, as well as most of its file formats, and has spawned several derivatives such as NeoOffice, a port for Mac OS X that integrates into its Aqua interface, and StarOffice, a commercial version by Sun Microsystems.
Other office suites include:
KOffice, an OpenDocument and open-source office suite which is part of the KDE Desktop Environment.
Lotus SmartSuite, provided by IBM contains a word-processing program called Word Pro, a spreadsheet program called Lotus 1-2-3, a presentation program called Lotus Freelance Graphics and a database program called Lotus Approach. Lotus Notes provides the email/PIM portion of the Lotus offering.
SoftMaker Office, an office suite from Germany including a word processor, a spreadsheet, a database manager, and a programming tool.
ThinkFree Office, a free web-based alternative office suite. It is almost fully compatible with Microsoft Office files.
Celframe Office, a free office suite consists of 7 major components: Word processor, Spreadsheet, Power Presentation, Database, Photo Editing, Image Organiser and Graphic editor.
602PC Suite, a cheap office suite replacement for Microsoft Office.
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