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Which is the best Linux office suite?   
Wednesday, December 10 2008 @ 02:26 PM EST
Contributed by: sde

OpenOffice hogs the limelight, but Linux users can actually choose between quite a few different "office" or "productivity application" suites. A newly published review compares good ol' OO.org with two commercial and two community supported alternatives, including StarOffice, Lotus Symphony, KOffice, and Abiword.

Published at InformationWeek, the review notes that StarOffice and Symphony both use the OO.org codebase, while adding support, bundling, and deployment features. For $35, the Standard version of StarOffice integrates the open source Thunderbird email client and Thunderbird's useful "Lightning" calendar extension. For $55, the Enterprise version adds support for native VBA macro and NetBeans script execution.

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