The use of Office Automation Software is need of every home user as well as industries. Most of the people think that MS-Office is part of Windows and its cost is included in Windows Licence Fees.
Due to this ignorance maximum individuals as well as organisations are using piarated Microsoft Office (MS-Office) as Office Automation Software. Where as in actual Licence fees of Microsoft Office is very high.
The Licence Fees of MS-Office Full version is approx Rs. 15000 per user and standard version cost approx. Rs. 8000 per user (Word, Excel, Power Point). The open office is one of the best free ware software and alternate of MS-Office, provided by Sun Microsystem.
Open Office Organisor 3.0 have following main components :-
Writer (alternate of Word).
Calc (alternate of Excel).
Impress (alternate of Power Point).
Base (alternate of Access)
Beside above components of Math and Draw are also there.
The following are the main feature of Open Office :-
- Software is Totally Free and can be down loaded from https://openoffice.org
(the download link and detail also on site http://www.worktools.info)
The MS-Office files can be open in Open Office without problem.
The files opened in Open Office can be saved in MS-Office Format also.
(means we can send the file created in Open office to all such users who don’t have open office
and are using MS-Office).
The file saved in Open Office origional format (odt) is totally virus free.
The file saved in Open Office is very small in size as compared to MS-Office format (doc, xls, ppt etc.)
Compatible withLinux as well as Microsoft Windows.
The implementation of Open Office is very easy. I have already implemented it and saved approx. Rs. 1.5 lac. of organisation. Although no support is required for its implementation. Even then if some-one have doubt about support, the paid service by Sun Microsystem is available at very nominal prices.