Here are three free office suite/productivity applications for creating documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
Locally Installed Applications
Robust functionality similar to Microsoft Office applications.
OpenOffice.org
Web-based Applications
The functionality is not the same in some areas compared to locally installed office applications but you will be able to access your documents from anywhere you have an Internet connection and collaborate with others.
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Solution options have virtually doubled thanks to Internet-based applications for virtually every type of traditional/in-house solution. For example, you can run Microsoft Word in-house or use Google Docs online. You can run Quickbooks locally or you can use NetSuite online.
Google’s email service “Gmail” recently experienced an outage that lasted for about 100 minutes. Should you reconsider using online applications in your business?
