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Products and Support Services - Detailed Information

Our solutions are mainly based on tested, reliable, and highly accessible
hardware och software solutions from Oracle and OpenOffice.org

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

Oracle Open Office 3 (former Sun StarOffice 9) Enterprise Edition

Oracle Open Office is Oracle's affordable and fully indemnified professional implementation of OpenOffice.org,
the most successful open source project in the world.

Oracle Open Office 3 is the latest version of its office productivity suite along with add-ons (also called extensions),
and a personal information manager (PIM) which includes mail and calendar functionality.

Oracle Open Office is available in the following distributions:

Standard Edition for private individuals, and
Enterprise Edition to meet the need of professional users and enterprise users.

The main differences between these two offerings are ( - Click here):

the Standard Edition includes the core features Writer, Calc, Impress, Base for a pre-selected language and a pre-selected operating system.
the Enterprise Edition comes with the core features Writer, Calc, Impress, Base
in 17 languages for the Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris/OpenSolaris operating systems,
plus some useful enterprise tools like
an SDK, NetBeans plug-in and MySQL connector, and extensions for e-mail and calendar.
the Enterprise Edition also comes with Migration Tools / Professional Analysis Wizard
Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition is eligible for Oracle Premier Support.

Professional Analyzer Wizard
Oracle Open Office (StarOffice) Enterprise Edition includes a set of tools that significantly
lower the time and cost of migrating Microsoft Office users to Oracle Open Office.
The migration tools in Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition consist of Professional Analysis Wizard.
The Professional Analysis Wizard analyzes user documents to identify potential migration risks,
calculates the cost of migration, and reduces that cost by preparing documents for the move.

New features

There are over 1600 new features in Oracle Open Office.
The feature set can be summarized as follows:

Support for the Mac (native OS X)
Import of Microsoft Office 2007 XML files, instant conversion of Excel macros
PDF Import (via an extension) and hybrid PDF
Productivity - presenter console, new charts and a lot of other cool stuff
Ease of use - native tables, notes, multiple page views and so many more
Mail and Calendar client
Developer features - extension frameowrk, VBA, HTTPS support

As with every release, Oracle Open Office (former StarOffice) has improved compatibility with
Microsoft Office, stability, performance, security, and Accessibility.
Oracle Open Office (StarOffice) Enterprise Edition Datasheet (English) and The What's New Guide are the best places to get details on all the features.

Many of these features are implemented as extensions.

New features in Oracle Open Office 3.2 (former StarOffice 9.2)

Supported Platforms:

All SPARC and UltraSPARC based hardware
Intel x86 hardware
JRE 1.4.1 and higher

Supported Operating Systems:

Mac(new) OS X v10.4 (Tiger) or higher
Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2 or higher), XP, or Vista
Linux Kernel version 2.4 or higher
Solaris 10 operating system (SPARC or x86 platform) or higher

Licensing Requirements:

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Oracle Open Office employs named or specific user-based licensing.
A Oracle Open Office Software Enterprise Edition License gives a named user the Right To Use (RTU)
to install the software for up to 5 copies of the software on systems they operate in any
of the supported languages and on any of the supported platforms.

Perpetual licenses comes without support included, support would need to be purchased separately.

Media Kit:

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This media kit has Oracle Open Office in 17 languages:
Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
Enterprise Right to Use licenses and documentation have to be purchased separately.

The media kit 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.

Documentation Kit

Oracle Open Office Enterprise Documentation Kit, English Contains five copies of the user guide.
Oracle Open Office Enterprise Documentation Kit, German Contains five copies of the user guide.
Oracle Open Office Enterprise Documentation Kit, French Contains five copies of the user guide.
Oracle Open Office Enterprise Documentation Kit, Italian Contains five copies of the user guide.
Oracle Open Office Enterprise Documentation Kit, Spanish Contains five copies of the user guide.
Oracle Open Office Enterprise Documentation Kit, Swedish Contains five copies of the user guide.

Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition Perpetual License Only

No Media Included
Pricing is per User - Click here.

Oracle Premium Support for Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition

Oracle Premier Support to be ordered separately; 1 or multi-year
Pricing is per User and Year - Click here.