Free NeoOffice or $71 iWork 08

[Coca-Cola]

Should I buy iWork 08 or use NeoOffice? I think iWork 08 looks solid. I use iWork 06. I am using NeoOffice for spreadsheets. Should I pay the $71 dollars and upgrade to iWork 08. I am really on the fence here. I use pages a lot, and sometimes keynote. However, I am new to spreadsheets. I need to start taking care of my business earnings and expenditures.

Thanks for any input.

[dukebound85]

well you have used both. does the cost of iwork justify itself to you?

i personally like iwork but not 70 dollars worth of like

[sushi]

The industry standard is Microsoft Office.

Having said that, as you know, iWork '06 has good implementations for word processing and presentations. iWork '08 improves on these applications plus adds a decent spreadsheet application. Numbers works well and I would think serve you well for a small business. Granted Numbers is not Excel, but in many ways much easier to use and comes with a decent feature set.

I think that you would be pleased with iWork '08.