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AbiWord and AbiCollab have been providing a free real-time document collaboration service in the cloud for 4 years.

See:

https://abicollab.net/

Open office has a document management collaboration and document management solution http://www.o3spaces.com/ Funny enough Abiword (remember them) is taking the lead here on free collaboration https://abicollab.net/ In terms of the rest... CRM works just as well for most any document system. As for email / scheduling there are open source solutions for that as well.

Microsoft offers a damn good suite for a medium sized per user cost. You can however build an Unixy environment and offer these same features. And frankly the fully unix solutions (like the ones from Oracle) are often quite a bit better than the Microsoft alternatives.

MS Office is the defacto standard. I need it to inter-operate in my workplace.

Despite all the progress made by AbiWord and even LibreOffice they're still not good enough at interoperability.

On the other hand http://abicollab.net/ offers a different and genuine way around it. Once you do real real-time collaboration in the cloud, emailing MS Office docs around seems pretty stupid.

(Disclaimer AbiWord and http://abicollab.net/ are my babies)

MS Office is the defacto standard. I need it to inter-operate in my workplace.

Despite all the progress made by AbiWord and even LibreOffice they're still not good enough at interoperability.

On the other hand http://abicollab.net/ offers a different and genuine way around it. Once you do real real-time collaboration in the cloud, emailing MS Office docs around seems pretty stupid.

(Disclaimer AbiWord and http://abicollab.net/ are my babies)

Try http://abicollab.net./

Clicking "open" on the doc automatically loads the doc into abiword, which you can annotate as you like. Clicking "save" in abiword sends it back to http://abocollab.net./

You can easily share and collaborate in real-time. You can tag your docs, share then amongst groups of people etc.

I guess it's not quite what you're after but it's collaboration features might make it work better than you expect.

Abiword can sufficiently handle most all of the documents you want to manage (pdf support is better but could still use improvement) and you can mark them up and collaborate via abicollab.net. The best part about abiword is that is portable to a large number of platforms including handheld devices (maemo), portableapps.com (for win32 on usb), mac and most *-nix as a package

http://abicollab.net/

http://abisource.com/

I don't know what exactly has been going wrong with your Abiword, but I just used the latest version to open a test doc I keep around for seeing if a word processor or other text editor is gonna choke. This thing is 2.5Mb of headers and footers and page numbers and links and images. A really nasty doc cooked up with no less than 3 versions of Office and 1 version of Open Office. How did it do?

While it took it a little over a minute to open that mess up on a 1.8GHz Sempron, when it did the doc looked correct and was easily edited and saved. Maybe you got a bad install, maybe there is some other problem, I don't know. But if it will open this mess of a doc without spewing word salad or crashing I consider it a pretty decent piece of software and certainly better than giving up my privacy and sending all my work straight to Google.

And as for the other poster who wanted to know if Abiword did spreadsheets like Google docs...uhhh...why exactly would you be working on spreadsheets in a word processor? For spreadsheets there is Gnumeric which is also free, light, and according to the wiki has earned itself a niche in statistical analysis and other scientific jobs due to its accuracy. Sounds to me like a better choice than throwing away privacy and trusting everything to the Google cloud, wouldn't you agree? And for those that want to share and edit documents over the web Abiword has AbiCollab