productivity applications

Linux.com: "Common wisdom says that Linux lacks applications. Fortunately, the common wisdom is dead wrong on this, especially when it comes to productivity applications."

Years ago, one of the criticisms lobbed at the Mac platform was that when it comes to software, there just isn’t much out there.

When databases became available for the personal computer in the mid-1980s, they quickly gained a mystique as the ultimate productivity applications.

Despite their widespread use, in some ways they have never lost that mystique -- so much so that many desktop users will stretch the use of spreadsheets to cumbersome lengths rather than consider setting up a database.

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