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The following is a list of office suites.
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Proprietary suites
Framework—historical but also still supported for Windows by the present developer, Selection & Functions Inc.
One (office suite)—New suite from the maker of Easy Office. Comprehensive suite now includes both EasyOffice and OpenOffice.org versions of various apps. This suite also includes versions of PeachTree accounting 2006 and other apps from commercial companies. *
Papyrus Office—A fast, stable and functional office suite with DTP ability for several platforms. *
Techdigm Office—Serious new Korean entry. Licensing issues are currently difficult although trial download is easy. *
Textease Studio CT—An office suite geared to elementary and perhaps middle school teaching. Can open Excel files. Has many elements including, a word processor, spreadsheet, movie-maker, drawing module, a database module, a presentation module, a paint program, and an innovative branching classification maker, all geared to the level of children. *
WPS Office—Chinese office suite, considered to be a serious player in that country. So far no English version.
Xoom Office—Historical but still available on eBay and elsewhere. Produced by the former makers of WordStar. *
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Free suites
GNOME Office—Includes AbiWord, Gnumeric and Gnome-DB data access components, AbiWord and Gnumeric are highly rated software.
OpenOffice.org—The parent project. Open Office contains a foundation of code from StarOffice. The code is donated continually by Sun Microsystems as it develops it. Volunteers elaborate on the code to produce the various Open Office versions, including the base suite.
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Office suites for Mac
The following software programs run on Mac computers from Apple Computer, Inc.
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Proprietary suites
AppleWorks—Formerly known as ClarisWorks, a famous early office suite.
ThinkFree—ThinkFree Office is an office suite written in Java. It includes a word processor (Write), a spreadsheet (Calc), and a presentation program (Show).
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Free suites
NeoOffice—NeoOffice is a Mac-specific open-source development project to make a version of OpenOffice that integrates more tightly with the native features of Mac OS X.
OpenOffice—OpenOffice.org also provides a version for Mac OS X.
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Proprietary suites
Applixware—Some versions are freeware some are commercial. Is built with a powerful macro/programming language. Exists in Linux, FreeBSD, Sun Sparc Solaris, and IBM AIX as well as Windows versions. *
DeskMaster—An Office Suite for AS400 with no spreadsheet but a bunch of other office tools including mail and word processing. *
Evermore Integrated Office—An intriguing new Chinese integrated office suite. Available for Red Hat Linux 8.0 KDE desktop environment or above.
Framework—Historical but also still supported for Windows by the present developer. Works with Novell Netware, OS/2, Apple Macintosh Power PC using Insignia Soft Windows, NeXTSTEP using Insignia Soft Windows, a number of Unix DOS emulators, Novell DOS 7, and earlier DOS versions dating back to DOS 3.0. *
SoftMaker Office 2004—German company with a strong word processor and spreadsheet.
StarOffice—A powerful mature suite from which Sun donates code to the OpenOffice.org project. Available for Windows (from 98SE onwards), Linux and Sun Solaris.
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Other than OpenOffice.org
KOffice—KOffice is a free, integrated office suite for KDE, the K Desktop Environment.
Siag Office—A suite with a sense of humor. The word processor is called Pathetic Writer.
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OpenOffice.org and its offshoots
602Office—A Czech and Slovak commercial version of OpenOffice.org. Contains the 602SQL database program. *
OpenOffice.org—The parent project. OpenOffice.org contains a foundation of code from StarOffice. The code is donated on a continuum basis by Sun Microsystems as it develops it. Volunteers elaborate on the code to produce the various OpenOffice.org versions, including the base suite.
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Online office suites
EyeOS—Free open-source web office translated to 30 languages.
FlySuite—A low priced office suite that installs locally and is also available anywhere if users have a subscription. Java-based. *
Simdesk—A suite of online MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) partially compatible software available with a subscription to Simdesk Services which cost from $3.50 – $20 a month. With a subscription, you are allowed to install the application anywhere.
Zoho Office Suite Free online office suite including word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, and collaboration groupware.
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Historical
ClarisWorks—Famous early Mac Office suite. It has morphed and branched into AppleWorks and GoBeProductive. When the original developers split up, ClarisWorks continued as AppleWorks after being bought by Apple, and GoBeProductive was redeveloped from the ground up using ideas from the original.
Framework—historical but also still supported for Windows by the present developer, Selection & Functions Inc. -*
Lotus Jazz—Mac sister product to Lotus Symphony below.
Lotus Symphony—Following the popularity of office suites made by competitors, the makers of the wildly popular Lotus 123, tried their hand at a suite for Windows.
Xoom Office—historical but still available on eBay and elsewhere. Produced by the makers of WordStar. *
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See also
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