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Products and Support Services - Overview

Your enterprise information is your crown jewels - protect it in future-proof open document formats:
OpenDocument Format (ODF).

With market leading office software suites,
Oracle Open Office (former StarOffice) Enterprise Edition and OpenOffice.org,
is your information accessible now and in the future.

Regardless of preference,
Oracle Open Office or OpenOffice.org,
we offer the most in-depth network of competent support resources
in the form of Oracles engineers - the ones who wrote the code.
Oracle's own employed engineers have contributed about 95% of the soure code in OpenOffice.org;
no other vendor has that insight and competence to support your enterprise installation.

Services:

Migration to OpenDocument Format (ODF)

Solutions based on technology from Oracle Open Office / OpenOffice.org:

Oracle Open Office 3 Enterprise Edition OpenOffice.org 3.x Oracle ODF Plugin for MS Office Oracle Open Office Server PDF Converter

Training/Courses Oracle Premier Support

Key similarities and differences between Oracle Open Office 3 and OpenOffice.org 3.x:

Oracle builds two distributions of a common code base for office software:

Oracle Open Office
the commercial edition, comes with vendor and product warranties and indemnification from Oracle.

OpenOffice.org
the community edition, source code is available.

Oracle Premier Support is of course available for both Oracle Open Office and OpenOffice.org.

At the core binary level there are no differences between
the single-user versions of Oracle Open Office 3 and OpenOffice.org 3.x

Both use the ISO standardized file format OpenDocument Format (ODF).
ODF is an example of a new generation of so called "open formats" that are completely vendor, platform,and application neutral.
Oracle Open Office and OpenOffice.org also handles documents in
Microsoft's "closed formats" for MS Word (.doc/.docx), MS Excel (.xls/.xlsx), and MS PowerPoint (.ppt/.pptx).

Oracle/Sun vs OO.org Code Contribution

Oracle Open Office (StarOffice) vs OpenOffice.org - Click here

Both Oracle Open Office and OpenOffice.org are compatible with
Microsoft Office at just a fraction of its license cost.

However, what differs are terms and conditions in respective license,
specifically how a user is allowed to deploy and use use the software,
and the rights a paying customer of Oracle Open Office always has in
getting priority attention when raising legitimate product issues with Oracle;
such rights and vendor attention are not available for OpenOffice.org
(see more under license terms for respective software suite).

For enhanced functionality in multi-user, multi-language, and multi-platform environments
we recommend the use of Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition - see more further down.

Oracle Open Office Startcenter - Picture

Oracle Open Office Startcenter - Click here

Oracle Open Office comes with following functions:

Writer - Text Document For online demo - Click here	Calc - Spreadsheet For online demo - Click here
Impress - Presentation For online demo - Click here	Draw - Drawing For online demo - Click here
Base - Database For online demo - Click here	Math - Formula For online demo - Click here
Extensions - Extra functionality via extensions Extensions available as plugins for extended functionality. The following extensions are included as standard in Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition: Oracle Connector for MS SharePoint, Oracle Connector for Alfresco CMS och Oracle Connector for MySQL
Enterprise Tools & Support Standard in Oracle Open Office (StarOffice) Enterprise Edition Media Kit. Optional when signing up for Oracle Premier Support for OpenOffice.org.

Oracle Open Office 3 Enterprise Edition Software.
Oracle's professional, pre-integrated and enhanced distribution of OpenOffice.org 3.x for:

Enterprises appreciating the support of multi-languages and the possibility to use the same office software suite in mixed environments
- multi-platform environments with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and/or OpenSolaris/Solaris.

Enterprises appreciating and prioritizing a fast installation of a shrink-wrapped pre-integrated software package
and support for dynamic updates and patches instead of having to dedicate own systems personel to spend
valuable work time to manually integrate, deploy and maintain similar functionality in OpenOffice.org.

Oracle Open Office 3 Enterprise Edition comes with:

Tools and support wizards to facilitate deployment, development of own applications, and administration of large scale installations.

Extensions and mail/calendar functionality.

Oracle warranty and indemnification.

Hot fixes, patches and updates.

Committed timelines for new functionality and important corrections.

Customization, if business opportunity is big enough.