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Review: Open-Source Office Suites Compared

Submitted by stro on Tue, 2008-12-09 09:29. AbiWord

In this review I've taken a look at OpenOffice.org's most recent release, along with the commercially-supported StarOffice from Sun,IBM (NYSE: IBM)'s reworking of OO.o as Lotus Symphony, the KOffice suite for Linux, and the minimal but still useful AbiWord. Talking about how these would entirely replace Microsoft Office would be misleading, since not everyone might be doing that -- so I've looked at each product as far on its own merits as possible.

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