An Oracle White Paper January 2010

Oracle Open Office 3 and 2007 Feature Comparison Oracle White Paper—Oracle Open Office 9 and Microsoft Office 2007 Feature Comparison

Introduction...... 1 Oracle Open Office Applications...... 2 Product Offerings...... 3 Ease-of-Learning Features...... 4 Ease of Use...... 5 General Formatting...... 6 Word Processing...... 7 HTML/Web Publishing...... 10 Spreadsheet...... 11 Charting...... 13 Presentation...... 14 Database...... 16 Extras...... 17 Desktop View...... 18 Accessibility...... 19 Localization...... 20 Interoperability and Standards...... 21 Graphic Support...... 24 System Requirements...... 25 Oracle White Paper—Oracle Open Office 9 and Microsoft Office 2007 Feature Comparison

Introduction This document compares key and detailed features of Oracle Open Office 3 and Microsoft Office 2007. The comparison focuses on the following areas:

• Product offerings. Comparing the various configurations of Microsoft Office 2007 to Oracle Open Office

• Ease-of-learning and ease-of-use features. Including the different types of help

• Word processing. Including spelling, styles, versioning, and HTML publishing

• Spreadsheet. Including formulas, charting, and pivot tables

• Presentations. Including layouts, animation effects, styles, and drawing features

• Database capabilities. Including database types/interfaces, forms, queries, and reports

• Additional areas. Covering extras (clip art, sample files, and the like), localization and language support, and accessibility features

• File formats and standards. Comparing those supported by both products

• Graphic formats. Comparing those supported by both products

• System requirements. Summarizing the operating systems supported, memory, hard drive, and other hardware requirements of both products

This information is intended only for use as an overview comparison. It should not replace a direct comparison in which both products are used and tested on a computer. For more information, consult the online help that accompanies each of the products.

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Oracle Open Office Applications

The Oracle Open Office productivity suite consists of the following applications:

Oracle Open Office Writer Oracle Open Office Writer is a word processor that provides flexible tables, frames for highlighting, columns for professional layouts, indexes, tables of contents, forms functionality, graphics handling, and built-in PDF export. Writer can read, edit, print, and save Microsoft Word files. Whether you need to snap out a quick memo or craft an in-depth report with a table of contents, diagrams, and an index, Writer makes it simple.

Oracle Open Office Calc Oracle Open Office Calc is a spreadsheet application that provides professional data calculation, hundreds of different formulas, the DataPilot (similar to Microsoft Excel’s pivot table), powerful autofilters, a linear solver, access to external datasources, powerful 2-D/3-D charts, a formula detective, a scenario calculator, and more. Calc can read, edit, print, and save Microsoft Excel files. It enables you to calculate, analyze, and share your data quickly and easily.

Oracle Open Office Impress Oracle Open Office Impress is a presentation tool that provides an intuitive front end for creating and editing presentations, dozens of slide and custom animations, easy-to-use tables, autoshape support, comments and notes, master functionality, and a presenter console (similar to Presenter View in Microsoft PowerPoint). Impress can read, edit, print, and save Microsoft PowerPoint files.

Oracle Open Office Draw Oracle Open Office Draw is a vector graphic application that provides dozens of shapes in addition to connectors for creating flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, organizational charts, and much more. Draw helps you bring your communications to life with easy-to-create drawings, sketches, charts, and more.

Oracle Open Office Base Oracle Open Office Base is a database front end in Oracle Open Office. It provides a forms editor with 25 controls; subform support; macro capabilities; a query editor; a powerful report editor; and connectivity via MySQL, JDBC, and ODBC. Base enables you to easily create self- contained database documents with all relevant data, table definitions, reports, and forms.

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Product Offerings

Table 1 provides an overview of the product configurations and applications.

TABLE 1: PRODUCT OFFERINGS

DESCRIPTION MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 ORACLE OPEN STANDARD PROFES- SMALL PROFES- ENTERPRISE ULTIMATE OFFICE 3 SIONAL BUSINESS SIONAL PLUS

Word processing X X X X X X X

Desktop X X X X X publishing

Spreadsheet X X X X X X X

Presentation X X X X X X X

Database X X X X X

E-mail/calendar X X X X X X X client

Drawing X

Accounting X X X

XML X X X X X X X

XML forms X X X X

Collaboration X X External solution solutions

HTML editing X X X X X X X

Developer tools X X X X X X X

Math X X X X X X X

Presentation X X X X X X player

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Other Communi- Communi- Communi- Installation cation client cation client cation support for client 60 days after purchase1

Price2 $239/ $329/ $279/ Price not Price not $679/ $49.95

(upgrade/full) $399 $499 $449 quoted quoted $539

Ease-of-Learning Features

Oracle Open Office 3 provides comprehensive, informative, and useful printed user documentation. Microsoft Office 2007’s online help is reference-based, providing concise how- to information. Oracle Open Office 3 offers easy to use online help and useful how-to information. Oracle Open Office online help provides thorough background information on the product and functionality.

TABLE 2: EASE-OF-LEARNING FEATURES

DESCRIPTION MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3

Online help • Office Assistant (not default) • Keyword and full-text search

• Keyword and full-text search • Bookmarks

• Help in response to typed questions • Conceptual description of functionality

• Step-by-step how-to information • How-to information

• Online/offline mode

• Search on Web

User manual General introductory information, including 88-page Getting Started Guide, features overview and user benefits introducing the product capabilities in a general manner

Web-based help • Assistance Center, which organizes • FAQs (general product info plus hundreds of articles/ FAQs/ how-tos by how-to)

task and product • Support forum, including seven how-to viewlets and information about support and training resources

• Knowledge database

Tips/what’s this? Yes: plus information on shortcut keys Yes: plus extended tips

Migration (moving from Microsoft N/A Microsoft import autopilot for Word,

1 Not available in every country. Please check www.sun.com/star/support. 2 Sources: Oracle, Microsoft

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Office to Oracle Open Office) PowerPoint, and Excel documents and help templates; white papers from the Web site

Ease of Use

Oracle Open Office 3 provides excellent context menus (accessible by right-clicking), giving users quick access to functionality relevant to the task at hand and maintaining the traditional way of working with a Windows application, in turn lowering the cost of training. Finally, Oracle Open Office software utilizes an “everything in one place” concept, so all tools for performing a related task are grouped, making them easier to find.

TABLE 3: EASE OF USE

DESCRIPTION MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3

Access to features Multiple task panes for using styles, Stylist, Gallery, and Navigator, which inserting images, word translation, offer easy and intuitive access to files, opening files, and so on images, and styles; multiple task panes for using transition and animation effects

Toolbars Replaced by Ribbons (similar to toolbars 67 default toolbars but with totally different look and feel)

Customizable toolbars Replaced by Ribbons, which are Yes customizable

Multiple toolbars Yes Yes

Most recently used menus Yes No

Pull-down menus Replaced by Ribbons (see above for more Fixed and customizable details)

Context menus Yes Yes

Shortcut keys Yes Yes

Drag-and-drop Yes Yes

Migration aids Filters for previous MS Office release and Migration document, batch converter, other Office products autopilots

Large document navigation Document map based on styles Navigator, which helps locate and jump

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to sections, different files when merging together, hyperlinked references, and objects; change page up and down buttons; and so on

XForms capabilities No Yes, with the OpenDocument file format

General Formatting

Oracle Open Office 3 offers general formatting features comparable to those of Microsoft Office 2007. Oracle Open Office provides comprehensive mathematical calculations in word processing tables and many customizable formatting options via the Style and Formatting dialog box.

TABLE 4: GENERAL FORMATTING

DESCRIPTION MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3

Font styles/effects • 11 + 6 text effects + 17 underlines: bold, • New fonts metrically equivalent to italic, bold italic, strikethrough, double Microsoft’s top three fonts

strikethrough, superscript/subscript, • 11 + 5 text effect + 15 underlines: bold, shadow, outline, emboss, engrave, italic, bold italic, shadow, outline, small/ all caps, hidden emboss, engrave, 5 strikethroughs, superscript/subscript, small/all caps, hidden

Drop caps Yes Yes

Bullets/numbering Yes Yes

Borders/shading Yes Yes

Tables • Yes • Yes

• Table in table • Yes • Yes

• Table toolbar • Yes (Ribbon) • Yes

• Calculate in tables • Yes • Yes

• Create chart from table • Yes • Yes

• Autoformat/styles • Yes • Yes

• Repeat table heading • Yes • Yes

• Change text direction • Yes • Yes

• Distribute cells evenly • Yes • Yes

• Sort • Yes • Yes

• Banded row/column • Yes • No

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• Total row • Yes • No

Find-and-replace Yes Yes

Multiple undo/redo Yes Yes

Fields Yes Yes

Format paintbrush Yes Yes

Show/hide nonprinting Yes Yes characters

Autoshapes Yes Yes

3-D styles Yes: 20 Yes: 12

3-D effects Yes: tilt up/down/left/right, depth, direction, Yes: illumination, shading shadow/ lighting, surface, color camera, geometry: normals, rounded edges, scaled depth, rotation angle, segments, textures, material properties

Diagrams Yes Yes

Word art Yes: 30 (no custom) Yes: fully customizable

SmartArt Yes: 100 No

Import from camera/scanner Yes Yes

Word Processing

Word 2007 and Oracle Open Office 3 offer similar word processing functionality. Oracle Open Office software offers additional strength in handling long documents.

TABLE 5: WORD PROCESSING

DESCRIPTION MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3 WRITER APPLICATION

Formatting • Task pane WYSIWYG formats • Style and Formatting dialog box

• Smart tags, enabling users to choose formatting options

Views

• Screen • Yes • Yes

• Print preview • Yes • Yes

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• Web • Yes • Yes

• Outline • Yes • Yes: with the Navigator

• Reading • Yes • Multipage side-by-side view

• Document navigator • Yes • Yes

Spelling

• Auto spell-check • Yes • Yes

• Context menu spelling • Yes • Yes

• Backup/undo • Yes • Yes

Grammar tool Yes No

Thesaurus Yes Yes

Research Yes No

Autotext

• Correct • Yes • Yes

• Format • Yes • Yes

• Format as you type • Yes • Yes

• Complete • Yes: programmable • Yes: programmable; automatic after second typing of word

Versions

• Track changes/redlines • Yes • Yes

• Authors in different colors • Yes: comments in margin • Yes: indicated by colors

Notes

• Document compare • Yes • Yes

• Version compare • Yes • Yes

Document properties General, summary, statistics, custom, and General, description, user-defined, contents of document internet, statistics

Header/footer Yes Yes

Table of contents Yes Yes

Index Yes Yes

Footnotes/endnotes Yes Yes

Forms Yes Yes

Click-’n’-type Yes Yes

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Collect and paste 24-item multiple clipboard with options for No formatting

Comments/notes Yes Yes

Bookmarks Yes Yes

References Yes Yes

Autosummarize/abstract Yes Yes

E-mail from document Yes Yes

Sound support Yes Yes

Movie support Yes Yes

Drawing tools Yes Yes

SmartArt Yes No

Macro recorder Yes Yes

Fill color, line color, font color Yes Yes

File recovery Yes Yes

XML Yes Standardized, complete, and fully documented; OpenDocument format

Built-in PDF export No: requires plug-in Yes

PDF import No Yes

Hybrid PDF No Yes

(fully editable PDF)

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HTML/Web Publishing

Oracle Open Office 3 provides advanced HTML creation, easy HTML code handling, and built- in URL links.

TABLE 6: HTML/WEB PUBLISHING

DESCRIPTION MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3 WRITER APPLICATION

HTML native file format Yes Yes

Web publishing • Yes, for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and • Yes

Access • Export files to HTML • Creating and publishing of Weblogs • XHTML export • Ability to post Excel files, including pivot • Oracle Weblog Publisher, Oracle Wiki tables, charts, and worksheets Publisher available as extensions • Online collaboration and Web discussion

Web editing • Yes: load, edit, and save documents via • Yes: load, edit, and save documents WebDAV and FTP protocol via FTP and WebDAV protocol

• ActiveX control to display and edit • ActiveX control to display documents in documents in an an Internet Explorer browser (Windows browser only) and plug-in for Mozilla/ browsers

Saving to server Yes Yes

Document sharing server Yes: Microsoft SharePoint server Yes: Microsoft SharePoint Server, O3Spaces, Alfresco, and Collanos

Save presentation as self- Yes Yes running Web page

Insert hyperlink Yes: automatic Yes: automatic

View as HTML Yes Yes

WebDAV Yes Yes

Built-in PDF export No: requires plug-in Yes

Hybrid PDF (fully editable PDF) No Yes

Running XSLT scripts Yes Yes

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Spreadsheet

Oracle Open Office offers spreadsheet functionality very similar to Microsoft Excel’s. Both are highly programmable applications with hundreds of built-in functions. Oracle Open Office’s language-independent APIs make adding more functionality very easy.

TABLE 7: SPREADSHEET

DESCRIPTION MICROSOFT EXCEL 2007 ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3 CALC APPLICATION

Pivot table/DataPilot Yes Yes

Statistical analysis Yes Yes

Web integration for stock quotes Yes: with Smart Tag Yes: with stock template

XML Yes Yes: ISO-standardized, complete, and fully documented OpenDocument file format

Running XSLT scripts Yes Yes

Error checking Yes Yes

Formula evaluator Yes Yes

Watch window Yes No

Function tips Yes Yes

Number of sheets 256 256

Number of columns 16,000 1,024

Number of rows 1 million 65,536

Text effects 5 types of underlines, strikethrough, Outline, shadow, underline, strikethrough, superscript, subscript 15 types of underlines, 5 types of strikethroughs, embossed, engraved

Horizontal alignment Default, left, center, right, filled, justified, Default, left, center, right, filled, justified centered across selection, distributed

Vertical alignment Bottom, top, middle, distributed, justified Default, top, bottom, middle

Text orientation Yes Yes

Number formats 11 10

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Border/patterns Yes Yes

Cell protection Yes Yes

SmartArt Yes No

Number of functions >335 >275

• Date and time • 19 • 30

• Financial • 53 • 61

• Information • 16 • 17

• Logical • 7 • 6

• Mathematical • 59 • 64

• Statistics • 83 • 77

• Database • 11 • 11

• Text • 23 • 28

• Array/spreadsheet/lookup • 18 • 33

• Engineering • 39 • –

• Add-in • – • 40

Sorting options Yes Yes

Conditional formatting Yes Yes

Chart wizard Yes Yes

Find-and-replace Yes Yes

Custom lists Yes Yes

Spelling, autocorrect Yes Yes

Research Yes No

Cell styles, style catalog Yes Yes

Change tracking Yes Yes

Preview Yes Yes

Formula autopilot Yes Yes

Cell notes Yes Yes

Format as autoformat Yes Yes

Conditional formatting Yes Yes

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Goal seek Yes Yes

Scenarios Yes Yes

Subtotals Yes Yes

Programming Yes Yes

Macro recorder Yes Yes

Drawing tools Yes Yes

PDF export Yes Yes

Charting

TABLE 8: CHARTING

DESCRIPTION MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3

Chart gallery/ wizard Yes: 73 chart types Yes: 79 chart types

Graph colors update with Yes No presentation

Working directly in cells Yes Yes

Tab through selected cell range Yes Yes

Drag legends Yes Yes

Live links to datafile Yes Yes

Bar charts 15 19

Column charts 19 21

Pie charts 6 8

• 2-D • Yes • Yes

• 3-D • Yes, plus 3-D exploded • Yes

• Proportional pies • Yes: custom with percentage • Yes

• Exploded pies • Yes • Yes

• Bar of pie • Yes • No

Line charts 7 8

• Projected 3-D Yes Yes

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Scatter charts 7 4

Radar/net 3 6

Bubble 2 –

Doughnut 2 –

Stock 4 4

Area charts 6 6

• Stacked • Yes • Yes

• Shadowed 3-D • Yes • Yes

Create chart from table Yes Yes

Create chart without table Yes Yes

Presentation

Oracle Open Office 3 offers features similar to those of Microsoft PowerPoint 2007. In addition, Oracle Open Office offers more-advanced drawing functionality, giving users greater control and flexibility for creating custom images.

TABLE 9: PRESENTATION

DESCRIPTION MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3 IMPRESS APPLICATION

Presentations to Web Yes Yes

Presentations as movies Yes No

Macromedia Flash export No Yes

Preview Yes Yes

Multiple slide designs Yes Yes

Image rotation Yes Yes

Password protection Yes Yes

Import outline from Writer Yes Yes

Styles Yes Yes

Layouts 20 20

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Views

• Outline • Yes • Yes

• Slide sorter • Yes • Yes

• Notes • Yes • Yes

• Slide show • Yes • Yes

• Handout • Yes • Yes

Transition effects 59 59

Animation effects 158 158

Effect preview Yes Yes

Package on CD Yes No

E-mail from presentation Yes Yes

Grid Yes Yes

Header/footer Yes Yes

Comments Yes No

Sound support Yes Yes

Movie support Yes Yes

Drawing tools Yes Yes

Canned shapes Yes: 189 Yes: more than 200

Fill color, line color, font color Yes Yes

Edit points Yes Yes

3-D styles Yes: 24 Yes: 12

3-D effects Yes: not full 3-D engine, limiting the Yes: full 3-D engine with full rotation and appearance of 3-D effects; tilt, depth, light sources; illumination, shading, direction, lighting, surface color rounded edges, scaled depth, rotation angle, textures, and so on

Canned diagrams Yes: 6 No

Word art Yes: 30 default, no custom Yes: fully customizable

SmartArt Yes No

Macro recorder No No

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XML Yes Standardized, complete, and fully documented OpenDocument file format

Built-In PDF export No: requires plug-in Yes

PDF import No Yes: for Oracle Open Office Draw

Hybrid PDF (fully editable PDF) No Yes

Database

Oracle Open Office 3 provides a powerful database front end. Autopilots help you create database tables, forms, reports, and queries. Use the powerful HSQL file format to save your forms, reports, and queries with the data in one file. Microsoft Office provides the Access database with the Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate versions of the Office suite only.

TABLE 10: DATABASE

DESCRIPTION MICROSOFT ACCESS 2007 ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3

(NOT IN ALL OFFICE EDITIONS ) BASE APPLICATION

Database table

• Design view • Yes • Yes

• Wizard • Yes • Yes

Queries

• SQL view • Yes • Yes

• Wizard • Yes • Yes

Forms

• Design view • Yes • Yes

• Wizard • Yes • Yes

Reports

• Design view • Yes • Yes: Oracle Open Office Report

• Wizard • Yes Builder • Yes

Database types/interfaces

• JDBC • No • Yes

• ODBC • Yes • Yes

• ADO • Yes • Yes: Windows only

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• Access • Yes: default • Yes: Windows only

• Microsoft SQL Server • Yes • Yes: via JDBC/ODBC

• Microsoft Excel • Yes • Yes

• OpenDoc spreadsheet • No • Yes

• dBase • – • –

• Paradox • Yes • Yes: via ODBC

• Adabas D • Yes • Yes

• HSQLDB • Yes: via ODBC • Yes: default

• MySQL • No • Yes

• Oracle Database • Yes: via ODBC • Yes: via JDBC/ODBC

Address books

• Mozilla • No • Yes

• Windows • Yes • Yes

Number of controls for the 17 18 database form

Number of form templates 25 10

Pivot table/chart as form Yes No

Number of styles for reports 25 6

Number of controls for the 17 5: Oracle Open Office Report Builder database report

Extras

Oracle Open Office 3 offers a large selection of templates and samples with the product, and Microsoft provides good additional information and resources over the Web. The Oracle Open Office software gallery makes it easy to view, select, and insert images and animations into users’ documents.

TABLE 11: EXTRAS

DESCRIPTION MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3

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Templates • Word, 45 • Oracle Open Office Writer, 44

• Excel, 6 • Oracle Open Office Calc, 12

• PowerPoint, 60 • Oracle Open Office Impress, 77

• More templates on the Web • Oracle Open Office Draw, 2

Clip art 400-plus images New clip art: more than 700 images

Clip art insertion module Task pane Gallery, easy drag-and-drop includes bidirectional import and export to and from the gallery

Sounds (.wav files) 2 35

Animations 4 47

Clip art /sounds/animation Grouped Not grouped, but in the same folder grouping

Wizards • Word: none Document Converter, Agenda, Euro

• PowerPoint: none Converter, Fax, List Box, Letter, Presentation, Print Forms, DB • Excel: Text Import, Convert Text To Connection, DB Forms, DB Report, DB Column, Lookup Formula, Conditional Query, DB Tables, HTML Web Page, Sum, Creating Formula, Function System Address Book, Chart wizards Arguments wizards

• Access: Getting Started, Collect Data by Using E-mail, Create Form, Create Subform, Command Button, List Box, Combo Box, Lookup, Query, Report, Table, Upsizing, Database Splitter, Export, Import wizards

Seamless integration of clip art Yes Yes preview and insertion

Easy-to-store/reuse graphics Yes Yes and diagrams

Desktop View

Oracle Open Office 3 integrates into the system seamlessly. Each module can be launched separately, but these individual modules can also exchange document types with each other.

TABLE 12: DESKTOP VIEW

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DESCRIPTION MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3

General appearance Right panel changes with tasks at hand. All modules are launched separately but share the same code base, making launching the consecutive applications efficient for system resources.

Buttons Replaced by Ribbons

• Normal • Yes • Yes

• Large • No • Yes

• Flat • No • Yes

Single document interface Single Single

Views

• Page layout • Yes • Yes

• Draft • Yes: not WYSIWYG • No

• Web layout • Yes • Yes

• Outline • Yes • Yes: with Navigator

• Full screen • Yes • Yes

• Reading layout • Yes • Yes: multipage side-by-side view

Accessibility

Oracle Open Office 3 uses the Java Access Bridge. This interface is supported by several accessibility tools.

TABLE 13: ACCESSIBILITY

DESCRIPTION MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3

Handwriting recognition Yes: in Writing Pad or Office Anywhere No

Onscreen keyboards Yes: text and symbol • Windows: Using third-party tools

• : GNOME On-screen Keyboard (GOK)

Speech recognition Yes No

Screen reader support Yes: all Windows third-party tools on the Yes: with third-party tools

market • On and Linux: Gnopernicus Screen Reader and Magnifier

• On Windows: JAWs Screen Reader

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(4.5 or higher), ZoomText Screen Magnifier (7.11 or higher)

Full keyboard navigation and Yes Yes control

Use of system color schemes Yes Yes

System font and color settings Yes Yes

Optional suppression of graphics Yes Yes

Support for assistive Yes Yes technologies

Nonblinking text selection cursor Yes Yes

Localization

Here is a comparison of available languages and localization features of Oracle Open Office 3 and Microsoft Office 2007. Note that through openoffice.org, Oracle provides the ability to localize the code for many more countries and regions.

TABLE 14: LOCALIZATION

DESCRIPTION MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3

Translation Translate function translates English, No French, and Spanish word by word

Number of localizations 30 17

Identifies language and switches Automatically identifies the language you Can check all languages at once dictionary are typing and switches the spell- checking, autocorrect, and proofing tools

Localized versions come with Yes: each localized version comes with a Yes: localized versions come with other languages Proofing Pak with one to four other proofing tools in several languages. languages. Add language proofing tools with the Proofing Tools CD (US$80).

Localized office Web sites Yes Some

Arabic Yes Yes

Portuguese Yes Yes

Brazilian Portuguese Yes Yes

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Chinese Yes Yes (Simplified and Traditional)

Czech Yes No

Danish Yes No

Dutch Yes Yes

English Yes Yes

Finnish Yes No

French Yes Yes

German Yes Yes

Greek Yes No

Hebrew Yes No

Hungarian Yes Yes

Italian Yes Yes

Japanese Yes Yes

Korean Yes Yes

Polish Yes Yes

Romanian Yes No

Russian Yes Yes

Spanish Yes Yes

Swedish Yes Yes

Thai Yes No

Turkish Yes No

Interoperability and Standards

This table presents a comparison of standards and file formats supported by Oracle Open Office 3 and Microsoft Office 2007. Oracle Open Office 3 has powerful Microsoft Office document filters to make reading and writing Microsoft Office files easy.

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TABLE 15: INTEROPERABILITY AND STANDARDS

DESCRIPTION MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3

Built-in PDF export No: requires plug-in Yes

PDF import No Yes: Oracle Open Office Draw

Oracle Open Office 5.x No Yes

Oracle Open Office XML file No Yes format

OpenDocument XML file format Yes: with Service Pack 2 Yes: default

WORD PROCESSING FILTERS

MS Word Windows(*.doc)

• 97–2003 • Yes • Yes

• 95 • Yes • Yes

• 6.0 • Yes • Yes

• WinWord 5 • Yes • Yes

MS Word 2007 (*.docx) Yes Yes: import

MS Word 2003 XML Yes Yes

StarWriter

• 3.0–5.x Yes Yes

Rich Text File (*.rtf) Yes Yes

WordPerfect (*.wpd)

• 11–13 Yes Yes

HTML (*.htm, *.html) Yes Yes

XHTML Yes Yes

Flat XML Yes Yes

Text ( *.txt, *.asc, *.ans) Yes Yes

T602 document No Yes

Hangul WP 97 (*.hwp) No Yes

StarWriter DOS No Yes

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SPREADSHEET FILTERS

MS Excel (*.xls)

• 97–2003 Yes Yes

MS Excel 2007 (*xlsx) Yes Yes: import

MS Excel 2003 XML Yes Yes

Oracle Open Office Calc

• 1.0 • No • No

• 3.0–5.x • No • No

XML Yes Yes dBase Yes Yes

Text (*.csv) Yes Yes

SYLK Yes Yes

DIF Yes Yes

HTML Yes Yes

Rich Text Format (*.rtf) Yes Yes

Lotus 1-2-3 Yes Yes

Quattro Pro 6.0 No Yes

PRESENTATION FILTERS

MS PowerPoint (*.ppt)

• 97–2003 Yes Yes

MS PowerPoint 2007 (*.pptx) Yes Yes: import

StarDraw

• 3.0–5.x Yes Yes

Macromedia Flash export No Yes

CGM – Computer Graphics No Yes Metafile

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Graphic Support

Both Microsoft Office 2007 and Oracle Open Office support most of the standard graphics file formats.

TABLE 16: GRAPHICS SUPPORT

DESCRIPTION MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3

Total 22 25

BMP – MS Windows Yes Yes

CDR – CorelDraw Yes No

CGM – Computer Graphics Yes Yes Metafile

DRW – Microgrfx Designer Yes No

DXF – AutoCAD Yes Yes

EMF – MS Windows Metafile Yes Yes

EMZ – Compressed Windows Yes No Enhanced Metafile

EPS – Encapsulated PostScript Yes Yes software

FPX – FlashPix Image File Yes No

GIF – Graphics Interchange Yes Yes Format

JPG – JPEG Yes Yes

MET – OS/2 Metafile No Yes

MIX – Picture It! format Yes No

PBM – Portable Bitmap No Yes

PCD – Photo CD Yes Yes

PCT – Mac Pict Yes Yes

PCX – ZSoft Paintbrush Yes Yes

PCZ – Compressed Mac PICT Yes No

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PGM – Portable Graymap No Yes

PNG – Portable Network Yes Yes Graphic

PPM – Portable Pixel Map No Yes

PSD – Adobe Photoshop No Yes software

RAS – Oracle Rasterfile No Yes

SBM No Yes

SGG No Yes

SVG No Yes

TGA – Truevision TARGA Yes Yes

TIF – Tag Image File Yes Yes

WMF – MS Windows Metafile Yes Yes

WMZ – Compressed Windows Yes No Metafile

WPG – WordPerfect Graphic Yes No

XBM – X-Consortium No Yes

XPM No Yes

System Requirements

Microsoft Office 2007 Professional installation on requires 410 MB of free disk space. Also note the significant extra memory required to run each additional Microsoft application. With Oracle Open Office, all modules run with only a slight increase in incremental system resources for each additional module launched.

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TABLE 17: SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

DESCRIPTION MICROSOFT OFFICE 2007 ORACLE OPEN OFFICE 3

Hardware architecture

• IBM PC • PC • PC

• Sun SPARC • Not SPARC • Sun SPARC

• Mac • PPC + x86 • x86

Processor • Pentium: 500 MHz or higher • Pentium CPU or higher UltraSPARC II / III / IV / IV+

Memory/RAM • Windows XP SP 2, 2003 SP1, Vista: • 2000, XP, Vista: 256 MB

256 MB • Oracle Solaris SPARC: x86 256 MB

• Linux x86: 256 MB

• Mac OS X: 512 MB

Hard disk space • Standard: 1.5 GB for installation • 350 MB – 760 MB (multilanguage)

• Professional: 2.0 GB for installation

• Ultimate: 3.0 GB for installation

Video Super VGA (1,024 x 768) or higher, 1,024 x 768 or higher-resolution graphic 256-plus colors device with 256 colors

Other requirements CD-ROM or internet connection CD-ROM or internet connection

Operating systems supported • Windows XP, 2003, Vista • Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista

• Oracle Solaris x86/SPARC

• Linux x86

• Mac OS X • Mac OS X

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