OpenOffice.org Solutions
The goal of this page is to list free and commercial solutions that might be important and helpful to companies, organizations and individuals who want to adopt OpenOffice.org.
For each category first those solutions are listed that focus on "vanilla" OpenOffice.org (the OpenOffice.org that can be downloaded from OpenOffice.org) instead of OpenOffice.org-based products like the StarOffice software or Novell's edition of OpenOffice.org. For companion products like the email and calendar servers the actual office suite flavor makes no difference, and thus does not affect the order in this list. The next order criteria is price. Solution free of cost are listed first whereas commercial solutions are listed last. Within the commercial solutions those are listed first where it is known that the vendors/organizations contribute or have contributed to OpenOffice.org.
DISCLAIMER: Since the status of and the information about solutions can change, please check always the solution's website for the latest information.
Contents
- 1 CD's & Documentation
- 2 Language Packs, Dictionaries & localized Versions
- 3 Add-on Components & Extensions
- 4 Migration Tools, Services & Training
- 5 Communication Clients (Email, Calendar, IM)
- 6 Email & Calendar Servers
- 7 Imaging & Publishing
- 8 Project Management
- 9 Fully-integrated Desktop Stack
- 10 Content & Document Mangement Systems
- 11 Thin Client Solutions
- 12 Vertical / Industry Solutions
CD's & Documentation
Product / Solution Name | Short Description | Costs / Charges | Source / Vendor | Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor | Additional Resources |
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OpenOffice.org CD/ROM Project | OpenOffice.org CD's | almost for free (cost of media and shipping) & commercial | OpenOffice.org | See: credits page, signed JCA's | |
StarOffice & StarSuite | Supported OpenOffice.org-based multi-platform office solution including CD's and a manual | commercial | Sun Microsystems | OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor | [1] |
Language Packs, Dictionaries & localized Versions
Product / Solution Name | Short Description | Costs / Charges | Source / Vendor | Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor | Additional Resources |
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OpenOffice.org l10n Project | Official OpenOffice.org localizations | no charge | OpenOffice.org | See: people responsible for l10n work, credits page, signed JCA's | |
BharateeyaOO.o | Indian language packs: English, Assamese, Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Urdu | no charge | BharateeyaOO.o Team, CDAC (Formerly NCST) | These language packs | |
StarOffice & StarSuite | Supported OpenOffice.org-based multi-platform office solution available in: Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Swedish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese | commercial | Sun Microsystems | OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor | [2] |
Add-on Components & Extensions
Product / Solution Name | Short Description | Costs / Charges | Source / Vendor | Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor | Additional Resources |
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OOo.HG | French collection of OpenOffice.org extensions for creating geographical and historical maps, diagrams, etc. | no charge | OOo.HG |
Migration Tools, Services & Training
Product / Solution Name | Short Description | Costs / Charges | Source / Vendor | Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor | Additional Resources |
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OpenOffice.org Support Area | Mailing lists, documentation, links to commercial offerings | no charge & commercial | OpenOffice.org | See: credits page, signed JCA's | |
Enterprise Edition of StarOffice & StarSuite | Supported OpenOffice.org-based multi-platform office solution including migration and mangement tools | commercial | Sun Microsystems | OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor | [3] |
SCAI Migration Analysis Suite | Migration assesment tool | commercial | SCAI |
Communication Clients (Email, Calendar, IM)
Product / Solution Name | Short Description | Costs / Charges | Source / Vendor | Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor | Additional Resources |
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Evolution | Integrated mail, addressbook and calendaring functionality | no charge | GNOME | [4] | |
Mozilla Lightning | Integrated calendar extension for Mozilla Thunderbird email client | no charge | Mozilla | [5] | |
GAIM | Multi-protocal instant messaging (IM) client | no charge | GAIM | [6] |
Email & Calendar Servers
Product / Solution Name | Short Description | Costs / Charges | Source / Vendor | Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor | Additional Resources |
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OpenGroupware.org | Email and calendar server solution | no charge | OpenGroupware.org | ||
Sun Java Communication Suite | Email and Calendar Server | no charge | Sun Microsystems | OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor | [7] |
Novell GroupWise | Email and calendar server solution | commercial | Novell | Code Contributions, OpenOffice.org Conference Sponsorship | |
Open-Xchange | Email and calendar server solution | commercial | Open-Xchange |
Imaging & Publishing
Product / Solution Name | Short Description | Costs / Charges | Source / Vendor | Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor | Additional Resources |
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Scribus | Open source desktop publishing application with OpenDocument format support | no charge | Scribus | [8] | |
Inkscape | Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics Editor | no charge | Inkscape | [9] | |
The GIMP | Image manipulation software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring | no charge | The GIMP | [10] |
Project Management
Product / Solution Name | Short Description | Costs / Charges | Source / Vendor | Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor | Additional Resources |
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[http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemind/ FreeMind | Java technology based mind mapper with OpenOffice.org file format export | no charge | SourceForge.net | [11] |
Fully-integrated Desktop Stack
Product / Solution Name | Short Description | Costs / Charges | Source / Vendor | Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor | Additional Resources |
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Novell Linux Desktop powered by SUSE Linux | Integrated Linux desktop solution | commercial | Novell | Code Contributions, OpenOffice.org Conference Sponsorship | [12] |
Red Hat Desktop | Integrated Linux desktop solution | commercial | Red Hat | Code Contributions | [13] |
Sun Java Desktop System | Integrated Solaris OS desktop solution | no charge | Sun Microsystems | OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor | [14] |
Xandros Desktop Business Edition | Integrated Linux desktop solution | commercial | Xandros |
Content & Document Mangement Systems
Product / Solution Name | Short Description | Costs / Charges | Source / Vendor | Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor | Additional Resources |
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Typo3 | Open Source Content Management Framework | no charge | TYPO3 Association | [15] | |
eZ publish | Open Source Enterprise CMS | no charge | eZ systems | [16] | |
icoya OpenContent | icoya OpenContent is the web based all-purpose solution for the creation and maintenance of powerful websites or intranets. | commercial | struktur AG | OpenOffice.org Conference Sponsor |
Thin Client Solutions
Product / Solution Name | Short Description | Costs / Charges | Source / Vendor | Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor | Additional Resources |
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Linux Terminal Server Project | "LTSP is an add-on package for Linux that allows you to connect lots of low-powered thin client terminals to a Linux server." | no charge | LTSP.org | Booth space at various events | |
Sun Ray Ultra-thin Clients | Thin clients with support for Linux, Windows and the Solaris OS | commercial | Sun Microsystems | OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor |
Vertical / Industry Solutions
Product / Solution Name | Short Description | Costs / Charges | Source / Vendor | Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor | Additional Resources |
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Elexis | Medical practice software for the Swiss market with OpenOffice.org support | no charge | Elexis | ||
Propylon Legislative Workbench | Creation, amendment, translation and multi-channel publishing of legislative documents | commercial | Propylon | Code contributions |