Microsof Corel t Office WordPerf 2007 ect X4

Sun OpenOffi StarOffice ce 2 8

iWork '08

IBM Lotus Symphon y

ThinkFr ee Office 3

Google Docs & Spreadshe ets

Zoho Office

CNET rating

7.8

7.0

7.0

6.0

7.3

TBA

7.3

7.3

6.7

Pricing and licensing $679 Ultimate; $89 Family $499 Pack; Pro; $119 $449 Home and Small Student; business; $299 $399 Standard; Standard $399 ; $149 Profession Home al and Student OS support Windows XP and Vista (Office 2008 for Mac TBA) Features 60+ Microsoft formats DOC, including DOCX, Corel files; XLS, Microsoft XLSX, DOC, PPT, DOCX, PPTX; XLS, XLSX, free add- PPT, PPTX; in for PDF ODF; exports exports PDFs Microsoft Word Corel WordPerfe ct Corel Quattro Pro Corel Presentati ons Microsoft DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX; Mac formats; MOV, SWF; exports PDFs Pages Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris Windows , Mac, Linux; Javaenabled browsers IE 6+, Firefox 1.07+, Mozilla 1.712+, Netscape 7.2+

$79.95 single license

Free

$79

Free

$50 download ; free and paid online editions

Free online beta version

Free online beta version

Windows

Windows, Linux, and Solaris

Mac

Windows and Linux

IE, Firefox, Safari 3 browsers

File formats

Microsoft DOC, XLS, PPT; ODF; exports PDFs

Microsoft Office, ODF

Microsoft DOC, Microsoft DOCX, DOC, XLS, XLS, PPT; ODF; XLSX, exports PPT, PDFs PPTX; exports PDFs

Microsoft DOC, XLS, PPT; ODF; exports PDFs

Microsoft DOC, XLS, PPT; ODF; exports PDFs

Word processor

StarWriter

Writer

Document s

Write

Docs

Writer

Spreadshe et

Microsoft Excel

StarCalc

Calc (Math edits Numbers equations ) Impress Keynote N/A (Mail included with Mac OS)

Spreadshe ets

Calc

Spreadshee ts

Sheet

Presentati ons

Microsoft PowerPoi nt Microsoft Outlook

StarImpres s

Presentati ons

Show

Presentatio ns

Show

E-mail

Mail

StarOffice.c om e-mail

N/A

N/A

N/A

Gmail tieins

N/A

Database

Access (Pro version)

Paradox (with $399 Pro edition) Presentati ons Graphics

Adabas D

Base

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Creator

Drawing

N/A

StarDraw

Draw

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Support plans Free by phone for 90 days; $49 by $15 per phone or incident e-mail (toll-free); per $149 for incident 10 60 days of thereafte incidents free phone r; (valid for support; between one year); $25 per call 5:00 $299 for thereafter; a.m. and 15 Monday to 9:00 incidents Friday, 8 p.m. (one a.m. to 5 Pacific year); p.m., all weekdays Monday to time zones , and Friday, 6:00 8:30 a.m. a.m. to to 7:30 3:00 p.m. ET p.m. weekend s 60 days of Unlimited free e-mail free e-mail queries; queries; $20 per elive help mail from thereafter; Monday to Monday to Friday, Friday, 8 8:30 a.m. a.m. to 5 to 7:30 p.m., all p.m. ET, time zones; 24-hour 24- to 48turnaround hour turnaround

Phone

N/A

Free by phone for 90 days;$49 per incident thereafte r through AppleCar e.

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

E-mail

Same as phone support

Peer support only, via Webbased forums and tutorials

Webbased articles and forums moderate d by Apple employee s

Webbased peer support; built-in help still being created.

24-hour e-mail support; Webbased forums and tutorials

Web-based peer forums and articles

Webbased peer forums and articles