Office-Product: One of the major office-products for Linux is StarOffice (www.stardiv.com) which is quite for commercial use (I guess something around $ 80 including manual and service; for noncommercial use, its free). I use StarOffice 4.0 (Service-Release 3) for quite a time now and its stable and good to use.
If you need a nice Desktop, there is (besides the old Caldera-Desktop) the KDE thing. I dont want to start a flamewar here (some say KDE is based on Qt-libs and due to library-reasons not fully GPL and therefore a BAD thing - that means you have to buy the commercial qt-lib if you want to DEVELOP commercial applications; use of qt-based apps like all the KDE progs is totally free) but KDE is the best choice for a "Windows-like" desktop. There is a desktop based on GPL called Gnome, but they are quite far away from Version 1 (means not even beta till now) which is also nice - but its not finished yet. I dont know, when you need all those things. But you can get KDE and even a licence for Staroffice if you stick to Caldera Linux (as far as I know, both are included in their distribution - www.caldera.com). Gernot -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Gernot Bauer Salzburger Kredit- und Wechsel-Bank AG eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Office) Makartplatz 3, 5020 Salzburg Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austria/Europe Phone: ++43-662-8684-364 The answer is yes, me. Fax: ++43-662-8684-23