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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.

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: 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

See also

 


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