[NTLUG:Discuss] Alternative to MS Excel and MS-Access

[mike]

You may look into Corel Office 2000. It comes with it's own linux distro and 
is a complete package. To me, It feels more 'polished'  than 
openoffice/staroffice to date. It has more of  the things you'd expect in a 
professional office suite too (a full sized thesaurus, grammar editors, 
professional grade footnote/endnotes, etc...)  Its not free, but if your goal 
is migrating an installed MS user base to a secure desktop and avoiding 
microsoft timebased licenses, this is a more attractive finished package 
today than the current open office or star office suites.  

If you look around, I'm sure there a loads of Corel Suite 2000 for linux 
still available for pennies of what it originally sold. 

Places to look

linux.corel.com
tigerdirect.com