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Arguably the most popular and influential of FOSS products, OpenOffice.org comprises a suite of the most common desktop office applications.

OpenOffice.org 3 is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

The OpenOffice.org suite comprises:

• Writer - has everything you would expect from a modern, fully equipped word processor.
• Calc - the spreadsheet you've always wanted.
• Impress - a truly outstanding tool for creating effective multimedia presentations.
• Draw - gives you the tools to communicate with graphics and diagrams.
• Base - enables you to manipulate database data seamlessly within OpenOffice.org 3

A major benefit of OpenOffice.org is it's cross-platform support; you can download and run the same version of OpenOffice.org on many different operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, Sun Solaris.