OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is the most widely distributed open-source multi-platform productivity suite. The OpenOffice.org community was founded by Sun Microsystems in 2000. An active community, of which Sun is a key member, enhances and supports the OpenOffice.org office suite. Future versions of Sun StarOffice software, beginning with 6.0, have been built using the OpenOffice.org source, APIs, file formats, and reference implementation. Sun continues to sponsor development on OpenOffice.org and is the primary contributor of code to OpenOffice.org. The latest version of Open Office allows use of the suite as separate applications or as embedded component in other applications. Numerous other features are also present including XML-based file formats based on the vendor-neutral OpenDocumentOASIS standard.          

Evolution

Evolution is an open source email client which is completely compatible with MS Exchange Server. Developed by Ximian, a company established in 1999 by Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza. Ximian was acquired by Novell in August 2003, and the companies product updates and new development are now produced by a combined workforce. A cross platform Evolution suite is currently under development.

Gimp

Gimp is an open source, cross platform, image and pixel manupulation program similar to Photoshop. The original GIMP was created of necessity by Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis in August, 1995. They were working on a project for a computer science class at the University of California, Berkeley. They decided to try something different--a pixel-based image manipulation program. Six months later, in February of 1996, an early beta version of the GIMP was released onto the Internet. The current release is now 2.2 and contains many if not all of the features of a modern commercial graphics program.

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