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.
- Gobe Productive—Originally written for BeOS by developers of the original ClarisWorks, GoBe Productive is a lightweight integrated Works-like office suite with a generous "Hassle-Free License."
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Works
- Papyrus Office—A fast, stable and functional office suite with DTP ability for several platforms.
- SoftMaker Office
- StarOffice—An office suite from Sun Microsystems. Based upon code from the OpenOffice.org project, which Sun founded and continues to support.
- ThinkFree Office
- Corel WordPerfect Office
- WPS Office—Chinese office suite, considered to be a serious player in that country. So far, there is no English version.
[edit] Free suites
- GNOME Office—Includes AbiWord, Gnumeric and Gnome-DB data access components, AbiWord and Gnumeric are highly rated software.
- OpenOffice.org—Free/open source software project upon which Sun's StarOffice is based. The initial code was developed by Sun Microsystems, which has provided much of the labor for its development since. Its components include Writer, Calc, Impress, and Base, among others.
- KOffice—KOffice is a free, integrated office suite for KDE.
[edit] Office suites for Mac
The following software programs run on Mac computers from Apple, Inc. running Mac OS X.
[edit] Proprietary suites
- AppleWorks—Formerly known as ClarisWorks, a famous early office suite.
- iWork—Apple Inc.'s Mac-only office suite. Includes Pages, for word-processing, and Keynote, for presentations.
- MarinerPack
- 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).
- ThinkFree—ThinkFree Office is an office suite written in Java. It includes a word processor (Write), a spreadsheet (Calc), and a presentation program (Show).
[edit] Free suites
- NeoOffice—NeoOffice is a Mac-specific free/open-source software development project, to integrating OpenOffice.org with native features of Mac OS X such as Quartz and Aqua, and by so doing giving the suite a more "Mac-like" look and feel.
- OpenOffice.org—OpenOffice.org also provides a version for Mac OS X, which currently requires X11 to run.
[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—A strong word processor and spreadsheet, provided by a German company.
- StarOffice—A powerful and mature office suite from Sun Microsystems. Based upon code from the OpenOffice.org project, which Sun founded and continues to support.
[edit] Free suites
[edit] OpenOffice.org and its offshoots
- OpenOffice.org—The parent project. The initial code was developed by Sun Microsystems, which has also done most of the development since. Its components include Writer, Calc, Impress, and Base, among others.
- 602Office—A Czech and Slovak commercial version of OpenOffice.org. Contains the 602SQL database program.
- Jambo OpenOffice—A Swahili version of OpenOffice.org.
- RomanianOffice—Romanian Version of OpenOffice.org.
[edit] Other than OpenOffice.org
- GNOME Office—a loosely coupled group of free/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.
- 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.
[edit] Online office suites
- EyeOS—Free/open-source web office translated to 30 languages.
- FlySuite.com
- Glide Effortless
- Google Docs & Spreadsheets
- Simdesk—An online office suite, offering partial compatibility with MS Office formats (Word, Excel, and Powerpoint), and available with a subscription to Simdesk Services (costing $3.50 – $20 per month). With a subscription, one is 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.
- Peepel
- Ajax13 http://us.ajax13.com/en/products.jsp
[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.
- LotusWorks—DOS and Windows suite containing a word processor, spreadsheet, database, graphing tools and telecommunications (modem terminal) module.
- Open Access—Integrated software by Software Products International (SPI).
- WindowWorks—Successor to LotusWorks above.
- Xoom Office—Historical but still available on eBay and elsewhere. Produced by the former makers of WordStar.
