OpenOffice.org Solutions

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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. Solutions 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.

CD's & Documentation

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
OpenOffice.org Documentation Project OpenOffice.org Documentation, HOW-TOs Free unless printed OpenOffice.org See: credits page, signed JCA's
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]
RedOffice OpenOffice.org-based office solution for Windows and Linux to meet the requirements of Chinese market (CD's and manual) commercial Beijing Redflag CH2000 Co., Ldt. OpenOffice.org development
EuroOffice OpenOffice.org-based multi-platform office solution free (no charge) & commercial MultiRacio Ltd. OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor

Language Packs, Dictionaries & localized Versions

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
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, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Mythili, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and 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]
OxygenOffice Professional OxygenOffice Professional is an enhanced version of original OpenOffice.org. It uses same codebase but the installer is packed more extras: clipart, templates, samples, documentations, fonts... The OxygenOffice Professional 2.3.0 is available in English, German, French, Italian and Hungarian languages. no charge OOOP 2.3.0 See: people responsible for l10n work, credits page, signed JCA's
EuroOffice OpenOffice.org-based multi-platform office solution available in: English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Polish no charge MultiRacio Ltd. OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor
EuroOffice Professional OpenOffice.org-based multi-platform office solution available in: English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Polish commercial MultiRacio Ltd. OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor

Add-on Components & Extensions

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
OpenOffice.org Extensions Repository "Official" OpenOffice.org Extensions Repository free and commercial
OOo.HG French collection of OpenOffice.org extensions for creating geographical and historical maps, diagrams, etc. no charge OOo.HG
Dmaths A set of tool to write formulas in OpenOffice.org. Dmaths is dedicated to those who use the formula editor on a daily basis no charge Dmaths
dxf2calc Tool for importing CAD drawings in spreadsheet no charge A. B. Jensen Maskinfabrik A/S
OOoLilyPond Tool for inserting music notation in OpenOffice.org no charge OOoLilyPond on SourceForge
Sun Report Builder Extension for OpenOffice.org and StarOffice that allows creating database reports no charge Sun Report Builder OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor
Sun Weblog Publisher Extension for OpenOffice.org and StarOffice that allows publishing Writer documents as blog entries commercial Sun Weblog Publisher OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor
Professional Template Pack for OpenOffice.org Professional document templates for OpenOffice.org commercial Professional Template Pack for OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor
OxygenOffice Professional contents for OpenOffice.org as extension - Free templates and galleries Extension version of OxygenOffice Professional's extra contents for OpenOffice.org like templates and galleries. no charge OxygenOffice Professional and Extension downloads OpenOffice.org and OxygenOffice Professional Community
EuroOffice Extensions in the OpenOffice.org Extensions Repository Free and commercial OpenOffice.org extensions: EuroOffice Dictionary (dictionary toolbar and translation aid), EuroOffice Map Chart, EuroOffice Solver free/no charge and commercial MultiRacio Ltd. OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor

Assistive Technology

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
Orca Screen Reader no charge Orca
GOK On-screen Keyboard no charge GOK
EuroOffice Adaptive Interface Adaptive menus based on user behaviour, works with EuroOffice only no charge MultiRacio Ltd. OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor

Migration Tools, Services & Training

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
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 management tools commercial Sun Microsystems OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor [3]
SCAI Migration Analysis Suite Migration assessment tool commercial SCAI

Enterprise Management Tools

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
OpenOffice-Enterprise Windows Group Policy management for the OpenOffice.org office suite commercial Open Office Technology, Inc. OpenOffice.org marketing support, bug reports, community-based technical support
Enterprise Edition of StarOffice & StarSuite Supported OpenOffice.org-based multi-platform office solution including migration and management tools commercial Sun Microsystems OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor [4]

Communication Clients (Email, Calendar, IM)

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
Evolution Integrated mail, address book and calendaring functionality no charge GNOME [5]
Mozilla Lightning Integrated calendar extension for Mozilla Thunderbird email client no charge Mozilla [6]
Pidgin Multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client no charge Pidgin [7]

Communication Servers (Email, Calendar, IM)

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
OpenGroupware.org Email and calendar server solution no charge OpenGroupware.org
Sun Java Communication Suite Email and Calendar Server commercial Sun Microsystems OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor [8]
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
Scribus Open source desktop publishing application with OpenDocument format support no charge Scribus [9]
Inkscape Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics Editor no charge Inkscape [10]
The GIMP Image manipulation software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring no charge The GIMP [11]

Project Management & Note Taking

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
FreeMind Java technology based mind mapper with OpenOffice.org file format export no charge SourceForge.net [12]
GanttProject Project management tool for creating gantt charts and resource load charts no charge GanttProject
OpenProj Open source project management tool no charge Projity
EverNote Note taking software similar to Microsoft OneNote commercial EverNote Corporation
DEVONnote Note taking software with ODF support for the Mac platform commercial DEVONtechnologies
Open Workbench Open Workbench is a free and powerful alternative to Microsoft Project no charge Open Workbench

Fully-integrated Desktop Stack

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
Ubuntu Linux Integrated Linux desktop solution no charge Ubuntu
Novell Linux Desktop powered by SUSE Linux Integrated Linux desktop solution commercial Novell Code Contributions, OpenOffice.org Conference Sponsorship [13]
Red Hat Desktop Integrated Linux desktop solution commercial Red Hat Code Contributions [14]
Sun Java Desktop System Integrated Solaris OS desktop solution no charge Sun Microsystems OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor [15]
Xandros Desktop Business Edition Integrated Linux desktop solution commercial Xandros

Bibliography / Citation Tools

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
Zotero Open source reference management software with OpenOffice.org support no charge Zotero [16]
Citavi Reference management software with OpenOffice.org support no charge / commercial Citavi

Content & Document Management Systems, Search Technology

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
Symfoni Document Manager Symfoni Document Manager is a general-purpose document management solution based on IBM Lotus Notes. Commercial Symfoni Software
Collanos Workplace P2P multi-platform team collaboration software no charge Collanos Software Blog Forum Tour Press Download
KnowledgeTree Document Management Made Simple Open Source Document Management System that leverages OpenOffice.org for internal document management tasks no charge KnowledgeTree Document Management System Blog Forums Download
Typo3 Open Source Content Management Framework no charge TYPO3 Association [17]
eZ publish Open Source Enterprise CMS no charge eZ systems [18]
Lodel Lodel is a high quality web publishing system. Document to be published may be prepared locally using OpenOffice.org no charge Lodel
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
O3 Spaces Collaboration and document management platform similar to Microsoft Sharepoint commercial O3 Spaces
Fabasoft Folio Content management and e-government solution commercial Fabasoft
OpenIndexer Network full text search engine, backup & restore of OpenDocument files & templates and creation of mobile archives on CD/DVD, for Win2003/XP/2K Freeware SAN Flash presentation Download
Metaliquid Fully web-based integrated content management and collaboration system commercial Metaliquid
PengYou Document collaboration server with OpenOffice.org client (extension) Freeware PengYou [19]
Paperiton DMS Document Management System with a very easy-to-use integration to OpenOffice.org. Commercial Paperiton
dtSearch "... over two dozen indexed, unindexed, full-text and fielded data search options ... built-in HTML converters for hit-highlighted display of other popular file types (MS Office, OpenOffice, ..." Commercial dtSearch
DataDirect XQuery "XQuery implementation that plugs easily into any Java architecture and accesses almost any data source without being dependent on underlying servers or proprietary extensions to XQuery" Commercial DataDirect

Thin Client Solutions & Hardware Bundling OpenOffice.org

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
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 [20]
Asus Eee PC Low-cost ultra-portable laptop with Linux pre-installed commercial ASUSTek Computer Inc. [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]
NComputing Sharing a regular PC with up to 7 students commercial NComputing [26]
Everex gPC Low-cost desktop and laptop computers with Linux pre-installed sold at Walmart commercial Everex [27] [28]
Zonbu Subscription-based low-cost PC commercial Zonbu [29]
Classmate PC Low-cost laptop with Linux as a software option commercial Classmate PC
wizpy Linux PDA similar to the Apple iPod with OpenOffice.org pre-installed commercial Turbolinux

Document Conversion

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
StarOffice 8 Server Special version of StarOffice optimized for server-side document conversion to PDF commercial Sun Microsystems OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor
deskUNPDF Professional "deskUNPDF allows you to turn your PDF documents into fully editable documents", "Supported document-based formats include the Open Document Format (.ODT) and Excel (.XLS)." commercial docudesk

Archiving

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
Xena Software for Digital Preservation no charge Xena

Database Tools & Database Development Tools

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
EMS SQL Manager for SQL Server "high performance tool for SQL Server development and administration" with ODF import/export support no charge EMS Database Management Solutions, Inc.
MySQL Open Source DBMS no charge MySQL / Sun Microsystems OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor [30]
PostgreSQL Open Source DBMS no charge PostgreSQL

ERP, CRM and Industry Specific Solutions

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
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
DATEV Software Solutions Software solutions for attorneys and tax counselors commercial DATEV
abas Business Software ERP software with OpenOffice.org support commercial abas
ZuckerReports ZuckerReports extends Sugar with reporting features (incl. OpenOffice.org mail merge support). commercial go-mobile
OpenOffice.org Extension for SugarCRM Using the OpenOffice.org mail merge feature with address data from SugarCRM no charge java.net [31]
Tabellio Parliamentary Toolbox (parliament workflow ("Procedures") management, electronic and paper delivery management, ...) no charge Tabellio
Propylon Legislative Workbench "The Legislative Workbench Core Modules provide the common services and architectural framework used by the Lawmaking and Chamber Business Management modules." commercial Propylon
OpenPlenum German e-government software for managing hearings / meetings commercial PROTEXT
fd-klinika German healthcare software for clinics commercial fliegel data [32]


ODF Viewers and ODF Development Tools

Product / Solution Name Short Description Costs / Charges Source / Vendor Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor Additional Resources
ODFReader Add-on for Mozilla Firefox allowing to view ODF files no charge ODFReader
odfviewer Standalone ODF viewer no charge odfviewer
Sun ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office Standalone ODF viewer no charge Sun Microsystems OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor
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