Comparison of office suites

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The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of office suites. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. The table only includes systems that are widely used and currently available.

Contents

1 General Information
2 Operating system support
3 Main components
4 Notes
5 See also

General Information

	Developer	First public release	Predecessor	Stable version	Operating system	Standard cost (USD)	OpenDocument support	License	Open source
Ability Office	Ability Plus Software	1985	—	4.15	Linux and Windows	.99	Northern Ontario	Proprietary	Northern Ontario
AppleWorks	Apple	1991	ClarisWorks	6.2.9	Mac OS, Mac OS X and Windows		Northern Ontario	Proprietary	Northern Ontario
Corel Office	Corel	1991	WordPerfect (1982)	X3 (or 13)	Windows	0	*???*	Proprietary	*???*
GNOME Office	GNOME Foundation AbiSource	?	—	2.4.2/1.6.2/1.9 & 0.62	Cross-platform	Free	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	GPL	style="background: #ddffdd" \|
GobeProductive	Gobe Software	1998	—	3.04 / 2.01	Windows and BeOS	.95	Northern Ontario	Proprietary	Northern Ontario
iWork	Apple	2005	—	'06	Mac OS X		Northern Ontario	Proprietary	Northern Ontario
KOffice	KDE Project	1998	—	1.5.0	BSD, Linux, Solaris	Free	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	LGPL and GPL	style="background: #ddffdd" \|
Lotus SmartSuite	IBM	1992	—	9.8	Windows and OS/2	0	Northern Ontario	Proprietary	Northern Ontario
Microsoft Office	Microsoft	August 30, 1993	Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Forethought PowerPoint	11.0	Windows and Macintosh	9	Northern Ontario	Proprietary	Northern Ontario
NeoOffice	Patrick Luby and Edward Peterlin	2005-06-02	OpenOffice 1.1 for Mac OS X	1.2	Mac OS X	Free	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	GPL	style="background: #ddffdd" \|
OpenOffice.org	OpenOffice.org Organization	October 2001	StarOffice	2.0.3	Cross-platform	Free	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	LGPL	style="background: #ddffdd" \|
SoftMaker Office	SoftMaker	1989	—	2004/2006	Windows and Linux	.95	TextMaker 2006 has ability to import	Proprietary	Northern Ontario
StarOffice	Sun Microsystems	1995	StarWriter	8.0	Cross-platform		style="background: #ddffdd" \|	Proprietary	Northern Ontario
WPS Office	Kingsoft	1980s	—	2005	Windows and Linux	0	Northern Ontario	Proprietary	Northern Ontario
	Developer	First public release	Predecessor	Stable version	Operating system	Standard cost (USD)	OpenDocument Support	License	Open source

Operating system support

The operating systems the office suites were designed to run on without emulation; for the given office suite/OS combination, there are six possibilities:

No indicates that it does not exist or was never released.
Partial indicates that while the office suite works, it lacks important functionality compared to versions for other OSs; it is still being developed however.
Beta indicates that while a version of the office suite is fully functional and has been released, it is still in development (e.g. for stability).
Yes indicates that the office suite has been officially released in a fully functional, stable version.
Dropped indicates that while the office suite works, new versions are no longer being released for the indicated OS; the number in parentheses is the last known stable version which was officially released for that OS.
Included indicates that the office suite comes pre-packaged as part of or has been integrated into the operating system.

Please note that the list is not exhaustive, but rather reflects the most common operating systems today.

Office suite	Windows	Mac OS X	Mac OS 9	Linux	BSD	Unix
Ability Office	style="background: #ddffdd" \| (Windows 98 or later)	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario
AppleWorks	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario
GNOME Office			Northern Ontario	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|
Gobe Productive	style="background: #ddffdd" \| (Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, and Windows XP)	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario
iWork	Northern Ontario	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario
KOffice		style="background: #ffffdd;" \|	Northern Ontario	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|
Lotus SmartSuite	style="background: #ddffdd" \|
Microsoft Office	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ffeedd" \| Dropped (2001)	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario
NeoOffice	Northern Ontario	style="background: #ddffdd" \| (Mac OS X v10.3 or above)	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario
OpenOffice.org	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	Northern Ontario	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|
SoftMaker Office	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario
StarOffice	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	Northern Ontario	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	Northern Ontario	style="background: #ddffdd" \|
WordPerfect Office	style="background: #ddffdd" \| (Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, and Windows XP)	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario
WPS	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario
Office suite	Windows	Mac OS X	Mac OS 9	Linux	BSD	Unix

Main components

	Word processor	Spreadsheet	Presentation	Flowchart	Drawing: bitmap / vector	Formula : mathematics / chemistry .	Data management	Project management	Observations
Ability Office	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Ability Write	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Ability Spreadsheet	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Ability Presentation	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Ability Draw	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Ability Photopaint Studio	Northern Ontario	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Ability Database	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario
AppleWorks	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	Northern Ontario	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	Northern Ontario	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario
Corel Office	style="background: #ddffdd" \| WordPerfect	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Quattro Pro	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Corel Presentations	Northern Ontario			style="background: #ddffdd" \| Paradox	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	Northern Ontario
GNOME Office	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Abiword	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Gnumeric	Northern Ontario	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Dia	style="background: #ddffdd" \| GIMP, Inkscape		style="background: #ddffdd" \| Mergeant	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Planner
GobeProductive
iWork	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Pages		style="background: #ddffdd" \| Keynote
KOffice	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Kword	style="background: #ddffdd" \| KSpread	style="background: #ddffdd" \| KPresenter	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Kivio, Kugar and Kchart	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Krita, Karbon14	style="background: #ddffdd" \| KFormula	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Kexi	style="background: #ddffdd" \| KPlato	Northern Ontario
Lotus SmartSuite	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Lotus Word Pro	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Lotus 1-2-3	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Lotus Freelance Graphics		style="background: #ddffdd" \| Lotus Freelance Graphics	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Equation Editor	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Lotus Approach
Microsoft Office	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Microsoft Word	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Microsoft Excel	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Microsoft Powerpoint	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Microsoft Visio	Northern Ontario	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Equation Editor	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Microsoft Access	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Microsoft Project	Northern Ontario
NeoOffice	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	Northern Ontario
OpenOffice.org	style="background: #ddffdd" \| OpenOffice.org Writer	style="background: #ddffdd" \| OpenOffice.org Calc	style="background: #ddffdd" \| OpenOffice.org Impress	style="background: #ddffdd" \| OpenOffice.org Draw	style="background: #ddffdd" \| OpenOffice.org Draw	style="background: #ddffdd" \| OpenOffice.org Math	style="background: #ddffdd" \| OpenOffice.org Base	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario
SoftMaker Office	style="background: #ddffdd" \| Textmaker	style="background: #ddffdd" \| PlanMaker	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	style="background: #ddffdd" \| (German Only)	style="background: #ddffdd" \| DataMaker (German only)	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario
StarOffice	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	Northern Ontario	Northern Ontario
WPS Office	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|	style="background: #ddffdd" \|
	Word processor	Spreadsheet	Presentation	Flowchart	Drawing: bitmap / vector	Formula : mathematics / chemistry .	Data management	Project management	Observations

Notes

Note 1: Release date of Lotus SmartSuite from http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3563/is_n7_v9/ai_14346979

Note 2: Kexi is available for Windows as a commercial product. A Cygwin port of KOffice is in progress although the status of that port is unknown.

Note 3: Only Abiword, Gnumeric, GIMP and Inkscape are available for MS Windows.

Note 4: Only Abiword is available as a native application

Comparison of office suites

General Information

Operating system support

Main components

Notes

See also