An Oracle White Paper January 2010 Oracle Open Office 3 and Microsoft Office 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. 1 Oracle White Paper — Oracle Open Office 9 and Microsoft Office 2007 Feature Comparison 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. 2 Oracle White Paper — Oracle Open Office 9 and Microsoft Office 2007 Feature Comparison 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 3 Oracle White Paper — Oracle Open Office 9 and Microsoft Office 2007 Feature Comparison 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 4 Oracle White Paper — Oracle Open Office 9 and Microsoft Office 2007 Feature Comparison 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