List of office suites
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The following is a list of office suites.
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[edit] Office suites for Windows
[edit] Proprietary suites
- 602PC Suite
- Ability Office
- EasyOffice
- Evermore Integrated Office
- Framework—historical but also still supported for Windows by the present developer, Selection & Functions Inc.
- IBM Lotus SmartSuite—Includes the famous Lotus 123 spreadsheet and the renamed AmiPro word processor.
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Works
- Papyrus Office—A fast, stable and functional office suite with DTP ability for several platforms. [1]
- SoftMaker Office
- StarOffice—Commercial suite from Sun Microsystems based off of OpenOffice code, to which Sun donates.
- ThinkFree Office—May be the English language version of Haansoft Office.
- Corel WordPerfect Office
- 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Office suites for Mac
The following software programs run on Mac computers from Apple Computer, Inc.
[edit] Proprietary suites
- AppleWorks—Formerly known as ClarisWorks, a famous early office suite.
- iWork—Apple Computer's Mac-only office suite. Includes Pages, for word-processing, and Keynote, for presentations.
- ThinkFree—ThinkFree Office is an office suite written in Java. It includes a word processor (Write), a spreadsheet (Calc), and a presentation program (Show).
- Microsoft® Office 2004 for Mac—This is the most recent version of MS Office for Mac and is older than the current Windows version (Office 2007).
[edit] 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.
[edit] Office suites for Unix(-like) operating systems
[edit] Proprietary suites
- Evermore Integrated Office—An intriguing new Chinese integrated office suite. Available for Red Hat Linux 8.0 KDE desktop environment or above.
- 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.
[edit] Free suites
[edit] Other than OpenOffice.org
- GNOME Office—a loosely coupled group of open-source applications including Abiword and Gnumeric, which is targeted for the GNOME desktop environment.
- 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.
- Andrew (software)—An office suite developed by Carnegie Mellon University and named after Andrew Carnegie. [2]
[edit] OpenOffice.org and its offshoots
- 602Office—A Czech and Slovak commercial version of OpenOffice.org. Contains the 602SQL database program. [3]
- Jambo OpenOffice—A Swahili version of OpenOffice.org.
- 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.
- RomanianOffice—Romanian Version of OpenOffice.org.
[edit] Online office suites
- EyeOS—Free open-source web office translated to 30 languages.
- Microsoft Office Live
- 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.
- ThinkFree Office—Java-based.
- Zoho Office Suite Free online office suite including word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, and collaboration groupware.
[edit] 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.
- 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.
