I am not very familiar with Software for the MAC.
What products compete with Microsoft’s Office coming from Apple for the Mac ?
>>>What products compete with Microsoft’s Office coming from Apple for the Mac ?
OpenOffice... and Apple’s iWork suite - Keynote (powerpoint), Numbers (spreadsheet), and Pages (desktop publisher/word processing). And for email, there are any number of Linux compatible email clients that will work on Macs, and Apple’s own Mail app.
The only thing that Mac lacks as far as MS Office capability is an equivalent for MS Access.
As far as spreadsheet, word processing, presentation software, all of Apples iWork products are far superior and read and write to MS Office Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
In fact, very often I can’t open MS Office files that were created on Windows machines when trying to open them using MS Office for Mac 2008, but I can open them with Apple iWork programs. Then use the files and save them as MS Office files to send back to my cohorts.