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Other free products worth looking at include:

[1] Star Office 5.1
 Portable: runs on Linux, Solaris, OS/2, Windows. Excellent MS Office
 compatibility, can even use some MS-Office templates and macros.

[2] KDE KOffice
 Currently available with a developers release 1.89, but should appear
 in the next few months with KDE 2. Less emphasis on compatibility.
 Word processor combines DTP function.

[3] Gnome workshop/Gnome office
 Abiword and Gnumeric are both usable and provide good MS
 compatibility, integration into a full package is still under way.

[4] LyX
 For scientific publishing for the non TeX-savvy, LyX is a superb GUI
 to LaTeX.

[5] More info
 w3.org also has a good page giving details on word processor filters
 for Unix.

Star office in particular is drawing good reviews as an Office
replacement. It was originally developed by Star Division in Germany,
but was recently bought up by Sun and released for free as a stick to
smack Microsoft with.

References
1.
 http://www.sun.com/staroffice/
2.
 http://www.kde.org
3.
 http://www.gnome.org
4.
 http://www.lyx.org
5.
 http://www.w3.org/Tools/Word_proc_filters.html