Fact Vs. Friction: Picking The Right Open-Source Office Suite
Over the past several months, a war of words has erupted over the future of OpenOffice.org. Let's focus on what most small-business users really care about: Picking the right software suite to maximize their productivity, control costs, and manage risk. In particular, let's look at five closely related business productivity suites: OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, Go-OO, OxygenOffice, and NeoOffice.
All of them are involved in some way in this debate, and that makes it especially important to discuss their actual differences and similarities.
Who maintains each of these products? All of these office suites are based largely on the source code contributed to the OpenOffice.org project, yet they all walk at least slightly different paths. Sun Microsystem's StarOffice is the only one that requires users to pay a licensing fee; in return, they receive technical support, legal indemnification, and additional bundled software. It is also the only one to employ a proprietary software license.
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