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The following is a list of office suites.
Office suites for Windows
Proprietary suites
- 602PC Suite - Formerly free for home use. Has PDF export features. external link
- Ability Office - Has been developed since 1985. external link
- Applixware - Linux versions is freeware for home use. Is built with a powerful macro/programming language. external link
- Ashampoo Office 2005 - Uses the same code base as SoftMaker Office. external link
- Budgie Office - Historical but still available. external link I & external link II.
- EasyOffice Freeware - The first external link may only work as a 30 day trial, rather that its behavior in the past which was nagware. If so try external link II. external link I & external link II
- EasyOffice Premium - A juggernaut number of office apps in one package. external link
- Evermore Integrated Office - An intriguing new Chinese integrated office suite. external link
- Framework - historical but also still supported for Windows by the present developer -Selection & Functions Inc.
- GoBeProductive - Some of ClarisWorks developers started this office suite. external link
- Haancom Office - Made by the makers of the popular Korea word processor, Hangul. The English language version is ThinkFree Office (see below). external link
- IBM Lotus SmartSuite - Includes the famous Lotus 123 spreadsheet and the renamed AmiPro word processor. external link
- Microsoft Office - In upcoming 2007 version, Microsoft reports it will switch file structure from proprietary binary to some form of XML. external link
- Microsoft Works - An overlooked but simple and useful suite. external link
- One - 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. external link
- Papyrus Office - A fast, stable and functional office suite with DTP ability for several platforms. external link
- SoftMaker Office 2004 - German company with a strong word processor and spreadsheet. external link
- StarOffice - Commercial suite from Sun Microsystems based off of OpenOffice code, to which Sun donates. external link
- Techdigm Office - Serious new Korean entry. Licensing issues are currently difficult although trial download is easy. external link
- 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. external link
- ThinkFree Office - May be the English language version of Haansoft Office. external link
- Corel WordPerfect Office - The second most popular commercial office suite. external link
- WPS Office - Chinese office suite, considered to be a serious player in that country. So far no English version. external link
- Xoom Office - Historical but still available on eBay and elsewhere. Produced by the former makers of WordStar. external link
Free suites
- GNOME Office - Includes AbiWord, Gnumeric and Gnome-DB data access components, AbiWord and Gnumeric are highly rated software. external link
- OpenOffice.org - The parent project. Open Office contains a foundation of code from StarOffice. The code is donated on continually by Sun Microsystems as it develops it. Volunteers elaborate on the code to produce the various Open Office versions, including the base suite. external link
Office suites for Mac
Proprietary suites
- AppleWorks - Formerly known as ClarisWorks, a famous early office suite. external link
- iWork - Entirely new Apple Mac suite. external link
- MarinerPak - Popular Mac word processor Mariner Write and spreadsheet Mariner Calc. external link
- Microsoft® Office 2004 for Mac - This is the most recent version of MS Office for Mac and is newer than the current Windows version (Office 2003). external link
Free suites
- NeoOffice - NeoOffice the main development project for making OpenOffice.org to run natively on Mac OS X. external link
Office suites for Unix, Linux, AIX, BSD, Sun Solaris, or other operating systems
Proprietary suites
- Applixware - Some versions are freeware some are commercial. Is built with a powerful macro/programming language. Exists in Linux, Free BSD, Sun Sparc Solaris, and IBM AIX as well as Windows versions. external link
- Axene - An office suite for Unix, Linux, SunOS, Solaris Sparc, FreeBSD & NetBSD. Fancy Website, but seems to have halted development in 1999. external link
- DeskMaster - An Office Suite for AS400 with no spreadsheet but a bunch of other office tools including mail and word processing. external link
- Evermore Integrated Office - An intriguing new Chinese integrated office suite. Available for Red Hat Linux 8.0 KDE desktop environment or above. external link
- 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. external link
- SoftMaker Office 2004 - German company with a strong word processor and spreadsheet. external link
- StarOffice - A powerful mature suite from which Sun donates code to the OpenOffice.org project. Available for Linux and Sun Solaris. external link
Free suites
Other than OpenOffice.org
- Ability Office - is only in Alpha testing. external link
- Andrew - An office suite for Linux and UNIX, developed by Carnegie Mellon University and named after Andrew Carnegie. Works with AIX 3.2, SunOS 4.1.3 & Solaris 2.4, Ultrix 4.3, HPUX 9.0, Linux (Red Hat Linux & Slackware). external link
- GNOME Office - Includes Abiword, Gnumeric and Gnome-DB data access components, Abiword and Gnumeric are highly rated software. external link
- KOffice - KOffice is a free, integrated office suite for KDE, the K Desktop Environment. external link
- Siag Office - A suite with a sense of humor. The word processor is called Pathetic Writer. external link
OpenOffice.org and its offshoots
- 602Office - A Czech and Slovak commercial version of OpenOffice.org. Contains the 602SQL database program. external link
- Jambo OpenOffice - A Swahili version of OpenOffice.org. external link
- 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. external link
- RomanianOffice - Romanian Version of OpenOffice.org. external link
Online office suites
- EyeOS - eyeos.info - 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. flysuite.com
- gOffice - An impressive start to the Web 2.0 office suite concept. The spreadsheet, which imports Excel files, and the word processor which can accept pastes from MS Word are ready. The presentation module is being worked on but the desktop publishing module does work. goffice.com
- Microsoft Office Live - officelive.microsoft.com
- SimDesk - A suite of online MS Office 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. www.simdesk.com
- Thinkfree Office Online Beta - Very interesting well developed new idea. Java-based. online.thinkfree.com
- Zoho Office Suite Free online office suite including word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, and collaboration groupware. Zoho home
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. external link
- 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. external link
See also
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