Last week I wrote about the wealth of free software applications on the world wide web. To follow up on that, here is a small sampling of some of the popular ones.

Let's start with the office suite style applications.

One is called OpenOffice and the other is NeoOffice.

OpenOffice will run on a variety of hardware structures including PC, Mac and Linux.

OpenOffice contains a full slate of applications from a word processor to a database to a presentation component. The word processor app, Writer, contains the usual word processing features. The spreadsheet, Calc, is a standard spreadsheet application that has the power to calculate, analyse, and do both reports or graphics. For multimedia presentations there is Impress. Its graphic module, Draw, can be used for everything from basic diagrams to three-dimensional illustrations.

Another office suite now being offered free of charge by IBM is Lotus Symphony.

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