Office suite
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In computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office application suite, productivity suite, offimatic suite or integrated offimatic program, is a software suite intended to be used by typical clerical and knowledge workers. The components are generally distributed together and able to interact with each other on a higher level than the operating system would normally allow, with a consistent user interface between the components.
Typical components
Most office application suites include at least a word processor and a spreadsheet element. In addition to these, the suite may contain a presentation program, a basic database, graphics and communications tools. Newer variations on the office applications suite include an email client, a personal information manager (or groupware package) and/or a graphics suite.
Current suites
The currently dominant office suite is Microsoft Office, which is available for Microsoft Windows and the Apple Macintosh. It is a propietary de-facto standard in productivity software, and is widely perceived to have more features then other office suites.
An alternative are the OpenDocument suites, that uses the free document format.
Another prominent office suite is OpenOffice.org, an open source alternative that is available for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh. OpenOffice.org supports OpenDocument and many of the features of Microsoft Office, as well as most of its file formats, and has spawned several derivatives such as NeoOffice, a port for Mac OS X that integrates into its Aqua interface, and StarOffice, a commercial version by Sun Microsystems.
There are also numerous other office suites available as well including:
- Corel's WordPerfect Office.
- iWork, Apple's Mac-only office suite. Includes Pages, for word-processing, and Keynote, for presentations.
- KOffice, an OpenDocument and open-source office suite which is part of the KDE Desktop Environment.
- GNOME Office, a loosely coupled group of open-source applications including Abiword and Gnumeric, which is targeted for the GNOME desktop environment.
- Lotus SmartSuite, provided by IBM contains a word-processing program called Word Pro, a spreadsheet program called Lotus 1-2-3, a presentation program called Lotus Freelance Graphics and a database program called Lotus Approach. Lotus Notes provides the email/PIM portion of the Lotus offering.
- SoftMaker Office, an office suite from Germany including a word processor, a spreadsheet, a database manager, and a programming tool.
- ThinkFree Office, a free web-based alternative office suite. It is almost fully compatible with Microsoft Office files.
See also
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