KOffice and Gnome Office contain some good products, and many individuals may find them to be exactly what they need, particularly when working with other programs from those desktops (KDE and Gnome). But OpenOffice is clearly the strongest. It has three very powerful constituent programs, and is the best office suite for working with Microsoft formats. OpenOffice has a great deal of momentum, with millions of users, far more than the others. OpenOffice has been adopted as part of the standard desk- tops of Red Hat, SuSE, Ximian, Sun, and UserLinux. OpenOffice works well on Windows and Linux. Anyone recommending an office suite as a standard to an organization really has to recommend OpenOffice. An alter- native might be not using a suite, but allowing individual programs to be selected. So in my view there are three practical methods that can be combined within a population to approach the office issue: