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OpenOffice.org The OpenOffice.org application is available for free for download, or orderable in the form of a Media Kit for a nominal fee, from www.openoffice.org Note1! The only genuine OpenOffice.org distribition is the one available from www.openoffice.org. Note2! NewFormat AB offers support services Oracle Premier Support for OpenOffice.org. "OpenOffice.org" is the name of the open source based office suite project OpenOffice.org and the name of the for free office suite distribution (the product) available for download from www.openoffice.org. OpenOffice.org is also a trademark owned by Oracle. Other "open office" distributions MIGHT be "forked" versions of the OpenOffice.org distribution. By forked we mean vendor-specific code is added by a vendor to the OpenOffice.org code base without the code being contributed back to the development project OpenOffice.org to form part of the base OpenOffice.org distribution. Enterprises striving for open standards to minimize vendor lock-in should be very careful before deploying such distributions. There is a true risk such distributions ultimately will be a dead-end - completely out of sync with the OpenOffice.org distribution. When it happens, and it surely will happen, the user will be vendor looked-in again. Our sincere recommendation: Always ask your vendor about their level of compliance with OpenOffice.org, their list of incompatible features added, and their list of not supported OpenOffice.org features. For product feature comparisons between Oracle Open Office (former StarOffice) Enterprise Edition and OpenOffice.org we recommend this document: Click here - StarOffice 9 and OpenOffice.org 3.x - A Feature Comparison (English, pdf) All in all, our business is to secure your business operation to allow for your enterprise to handle the enterprise information now and in the future in open document formats/OpenDocument Format (ODF). Complemented with leading support services, Oracle Premier Support, your enterprise can reshape its focus on its core business.
Worth to Notice OpenOffice.org only comes as the core binary supporting basic functions as Writer, Calc, Impress, Base. For all other functionality needed, updates, patches, upgrades and extensions have to be added manually. Which means your organisation then will have to spend considerable time to undertake integration of the same functionality that already comes pre-packaged with Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition. And time is a major cost concern for any enterprise. For organizations having hundreds, or even thousands of computers to install, maintain and look after we do recommend a fair calculation of the tentative cost advantage in large scale deployment of plain OpenOffice.org, compared to the total cost of ownership for deployment of Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition in the same environment. Maintenance Costs: Maintenance costs are lower for Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition and Microsoft Office because of support of dynamic product updates and patches; in contrast to OpenOffice.org which is available as installation set only. The Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition product updates are easy to distribute through the software deployment system. This results in 60% lower maintenance costs for Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition compared to OpenOffice.org. We highly recommend reading of this white paper from Oracle on the total cost of ownership for office productvity software suites: "Cost Comparisons of Oracle Open Office 3 Enterprise Edition, OpenOffice.org 3.x, and Microsoft Office 2007", - with interesting outcome on the open and cost-effective alternatives we offer your enterprise to benefit from. Click here to order the document. We will shortly send it to you by e-mail. *The OpenOffice.org standard distributionen LACKS* at least the following functionality:** Enterprise Tools & Support (incuded in Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition) Tools and support wizards to facilitate: 1. migration of MS Office documents to OpenDocument Format. 2. deployment, development of own applications, and administration of large scale installations. With OpenOffice.org you have to spend your organisation's valuable time to build and integrate such tools and wizards separately). Extensions and mail/calendar functionality (included in Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition). With OpenOffice.org you have to spend your organisation's valuable time to download and integrate each extension separately). Oracle warranty and indemnification (included in Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition). Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition comes with full vendor and product warranties plus legal indemnification by Oracle. Which means Oracle protects the customer should a 3:rd part claim IP rights to any part of the code. In contrast, users installing and running OpenOffice.org are not eligible for such legal protection and indemnification. No legal indemnification for OpenOffice.org is a potential risk and threat for any organisation to consider. - Contact your legal department for clearance. Hot fixes, patches and updates (included in Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition). With OpenOffice.org you have to spend your organization's valuable time to do a full re-installation on all systems. Committed timelines for new functionality and important corrections (included in Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition). With OpenOffice.org you have to spend your organization's valuable time to request timelines. Customization (included in Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition). If business opportunity is big enough.
Oracle Premier Support for OpenOffice.org 3.x All type of software deployed for production use is subject for active software maintenance on a regular basis to protect the value of the investment and to avoid costly production downtime for the business. Deployment of open source based software, such as OpenOffice.org, is no different where the benefit of low/zero-priced license risk to be gone due to underestimation of the maintenance time needed for professional maintenance throughout the lifetime of the software. It is true there happens to be netbased forums (staffed by skilled volunteers) offering free services to turn to should problems occur, and in many cases such forums are able to provide a good solution to an acute problem. Nevertheless, it is important to be fully aware such support forums in no way accept to be accountable for caused or upcoming problems, nor are they able to accept to provide full vendor and product warranties as part of their free services. We offer Oracle Premier Support for OpenOffice.org giving you a flexible and cost-efficient support service for your OpenOffice.org deployment. Enterprise class services for OpenOffice.org from Oracle, the creator and leading contributor of OpenOffice.org. Details on Oracle Premier Support for OpenOffice.org is available here. Pricing is per User per Year - Click here. BREAKING NEWS!! Media Kit: OpenOffice.org Enterprise 3.1 Media Kit Media kit only available for customers ordering Oracle Premier Support for OpenOffice.org. The media kit closely follows the Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition media kit and includes: 1. Enterprise tools - migration, document analysis, Sharepoint connector, Alfresco connector, MySQL connector, SDK. 2. Extensions - Sun PDF Import, Sun Report Builder,Sun Weblog Publisher, Sun MediaWiki publisher, Sun Presentation Minimizer, Sun eFax extension, Sun Presenter Console, Templates. 3. Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning Calendar extension. For price information - Click here. NewFormat AB Smörblommegränd 14, SE-165 72 Hässelby, Sweden tel: +46 (0)70 631 53 01 All content © copyright 2010 NewFormat AB. All rights reserved.