A brief comparison of the different business productivity suites on the market at the moment - Office 2007 vs OpenOffice, Star Office, WordPerfect, Google Apps, PeePel and Zoho Office Session delivered by Paul Woods at OfficeDevCon08 in Sydney, Australia - 14/15 November 2008 http://www.thenewpaperclip.com http://www.paul-woods.com

2. IN THE BLUE CORNER

3. IN THE RED CORNER

4. IN THE...OTHER RED CORNER

5. Office Suite Smack down

8. Smack down Objectives

9. The Administrator

10. The Spreadsheet Warrior

11. The Sales and Marketing Machine

12. The Contenders

13. Open Office.org 2.4

17. Star Office 8

19. OpenOffice with a Sun Logo Compared to OO CONS: Support for fewer languages Support for fewer o/s Licence fee PROS: Support A few more fonts Indemnification ... And you get a sneaky Google toolbar installed as well!

20. Corel WordPerfect Office X4

22. Wordperfect Classic 5.1

23. Wordperfect Legal Mode

24. Wordperfect “Word” Mode

25. Wordperfect “WordPerfect” Mode

26. Quattro Pro “ Quattro Pro” Mode

27. Quattro Pro “ Excel” Mode

28. Quattro Pro “ Lotus 1-2-3” Mode

29. Presentations “ Presentations” Mode

30. Presentations “ PowerPoint” Mode

32. Google Apps

36. Wordpad with collaboration

40. Peepel

44. Zoho Office

47. So what?

48. Which one is right for your org?

49. Office 2007 Standard Office 2007 Pro Office 2007 Ultimate Open Office 2.4 StarOffice 8 Wordperfect Office X4 Google Apps Peepel Zoho Office

50. The Administrator

51. The Spreadsheet Warrior

52. The Sales and Marketing Machine

53. Office Suite Smack down

55. “ Just FYI: I hate Office 2007”