OpenOffice.org Solutions

The goal of this page is to list free and commercial solutions that might be important and helpful to companies, organizations, and individuals who want to adopt OpenOffice.org.

For each category first those solutions are listed that focus on "vanilla" OpenOffice.org (the OpenOffice.org that can be downloaded from OpenOffice.org) instead of OpenOffice.org-based products like the Oracle Open Office software or Novell's edition of OpenOffice.org. For companion products like the email and calendar servers the actual office suite flavor makes no difference, and thus does not affect the order in this list. The next order criteria is price. Solutions free of cost are listed first whereas commercial solutions are listed last. Within the commercial solutions those are listed first where it is known that the vendors/organizations contribute or have contributed to OpenOffice.org.

DISCLAIMER: Since the status of and the information about solutions can change, please check always the solution's website for the latest information.

CD's & Documentation

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
OpenOffice.org Documentation Project	OpenOffice.org Documentation, HOW-TOs	Free unless printed	OpenOffice.org	See: credits page, signed JCA's
OpenOffice.org CD/ROM Project	OpenOffice.org CD's	Almost for free (cost of media and shipping) & commercial	OpenOffice.org	See: credits page, signed JCA's
Oracle Open Office Discontinued	Supported OpenOffice.org-based multi-platform office solution	commercial	Oracle	OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor	[1]
OpenOffice.org pro	OpenOffice.org pro. Optimized for Russian users. Improved support for Cyrillic documents, a thesaurus and a dictionary	Almost for free (cost of media and shipping) & support	Infra-Resource	L10n, Encyclopedia (wiki), Electronic Distribution by Russian CDN, Establishment of a national state standard based on ODF (the final stage of adoption).
RedOffice	OpenOffice.org-based office solution for Windows and Linux to meet the requirements of Chinese market (CD's and manual)	commercial	Beijing Redflag CH2000 Co., Ldt.	OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor
EuroOffice	OpenOffice.org-based multi-platform office solution	free (no charge) & commercial	MultiRacio Ltd.	OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor

Language Packs, Dictionaries & localized Versions

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
OpenOffice.org l10n Project	Official OpenOffice.org localizations	no charge	OpenOffice.org	See: people responsible for l10n work, credits page, signed JCA's
BharateeyaOO.o	Indian language packs: English, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Mythili, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu	no charge	BharateeyaOO.o Team, CDAC (Formerly NCST)	These language packs
Oracle Open Office Discontinued	Supported OpenOffice.org-based multi-platform office solution available in: Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Swedish, Russian, Arabic, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese	commercial	Oracle	OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor	[2]
OpenOffice.org pro	OpenOffice.org pro. Optimized for Russian users. Improved support for Cyrillic documents, a thesaurus and a dictionary	Almost for free (cost of media and shipping) & support	Infra-Resource	L10n, Encyclopedia (wiki), Electronic Distribution by Russian CDN, Establishment of a national state standard based on ODF (the final stage of adoption).
OxygenOffice Professional	OxygenOffice Professional is a free and multilingual office suite that runs fine on your Windows and Linux. This open source project based on OpenOffice.org that is the leader open source office productivity suite. The OxygenOffice Professional comes with many useful accessories like templates, cliparts, fonts, samples. The product is compatible with all other major office suites like Microsoft Office and StarOffice. OxygenOffice Professional is free to download, use and distribute for corporate, enterprise, home and non-profit application. It is easy to use, easy to learn. The OxygenOffice Professional 2.4.1 is available in English, German, French, Italian, Hungarian, Brazilian, Chinese (简体中文), Czech, Dutch, Finnish, Georgian (ქართული ენა), Japanese, Polish, Spanish, Swedish and Türkçe (Turkish) languages.	no charge	OOOP 2.4.1	See: people responsible for l10n work, credits page, signed JCA's	OxygenOffice Professional homepage
EuroOffice	OpenOffice.org-based multi-platform office solution available in: English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Polish	no charge	MultiRacio Ltd.	OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor
EuroOffice Professional	OpenOffice.org-based multi-platform office solution available in: English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Polish	commercial	MultiRacio Ltd.	OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor

Add-on Components & Extensions

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
OpenOffice.org Extensions Repository	"Official" OpenOffice.org Extensions Repository	free and commercial
OOo.HG	French collection of OpenOffice.org extensions for creating geographical and historical maps, diagrams, etc.	no charge	OOo.HG
Dmaths	A set of tool to write formulas in OpenOffice.org. Dmaths is dedicated to those who use the formula editor on a daily basis	no charge	Dmaths
dxf2calc	Tool for importing CAD drawings in spreadsheet	no charge	A. B. Jensen Maskinfabrik A/S
OOoLilyPond	Tool for inserting music notation in OpenOffice.org	no charge	OOoLilyPond on SourceForge
Oracle Report Builder	Extension for OpenOffice.org and StarOffice that allows creating database reports	no charge	Oracle Inc.	OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor
O3Spaces Workplace Plugin	OpenOffice.org plugin which includes Open from/Publish to Workplace, Reading/Adding of comments and reviewing any previous Document Version.	Free of charge (Community Edition)/Commercial	O3Spaces	This plugin	Trial Center
Screenwright(R) Script Formatters	Formatting templates for screenplays, sitcoms, radio, theater / stage plays, and audio-visual dual-column corporate videos / industrial films - in both A4 and 8½×11" formats	free	Anikó J. Bartos & Alan C. Baird	OOo/Sun Community Innovation Program Award Recipient	Templates
OxygenOffice Professional contents for OpenOffice.org as extension - Free templates and galleries	Extension version of OxygenOffice Professional's extra contents for OpenOffice.org like templates and galleries.	no charge	OxygenOffice Professional and Extension downloads	OpenOffice.org and OxygenOffice Professional Community
EuroOffice Extensions in the OpenOffice.org Extensions Repository	Free and commercial OpenOffice.org extensions: EuroOffice Dictionary (dictionary toolbar and translation aid), EuroOffice Map Chart, EuroOffice Solver	free/no charge and commercial	MultiRacio Ltd.	OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor
CalcLink	A bi-directional link between Mathematica and Calc	commercial	Lauschke Consulting
PAVONE OfficeGateway for OpenOffice.org	PAVONE OfficeGateway for OpenOffice.org. PAVONE OfficeGateway offers the direct use of office documents via IBM Lotus Notes or a web browser. It creates a connection between comfortable word processing and calculation in office suites and the communication, coordination and knowledge platform IBM Lotus Notes / Domino.	commercial	PAVONE AG

Assistive Technology

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
Orca	Screen Reader	no charge	Orca
GOK	On-screen Keyboard	no charge	GOK
EuroOffice Adaptive Interface	Adaptive menus based on user behaviour, works with EuroOffice only	no charge	MultiRacio Ltd.	OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor

Migration Tools, Services & Training

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
OpenOffice.org Support Area	Mailing lists, documentation, links to commercial offerings	no charge & commercial	OpenOffice.org	See: credits page, signed JCA's
Oracle Open Office Enterprise Edition	Supported OpenOffice.org-based multi-platform office solution including analysis tools.	commercial	Oracle Inc	OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor	[3]
SCAI Migration Analysis Suite	Migration assessment tool	commercial	SCAI

Enterprise Management Tools

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
OpenOffice-Enterprise	Windows Group Policy management for the OpenOffice.org office suite	commercial	Open Office Technology, Inc.	OpenOffice.org marketing support, bug reports, community-based technical support

Communication Clients (Email, Calendar, IM)

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
Evolution	Integrated mail, address book and calendaring functionality	no charge	GNOME		[4]
Mozilla Lightning	Integrated calendar extension for Mozilla Thunderbird email client	no charge	Mozilla		[5]
Pidgin	Multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client	no charge	Pidgin		[6]

Communication Servers (Email, Calendar, IM)

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
OpenGroupware.org	Email and calendar server solution	no charge	OpenGroupware.org
Oracle Communications Unified Communications Suite	Email and Calendar Server	commercial	Oracle Inc.	OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor	[7]
Novell GroupWise	Email and calendar server solution	commercial	Novell	Code Contributions, OpenOffice.org Conference Sponsorship
Open-Xchange	Email and calendar server solution	commercial	Open-Xchange

Imaging & Publishing

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
Scribus	Open source desktop publishing application with OpenDocument format support	no charge	Scribus		[8]
Inkscape	Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics Editor	no charge	Inkscape		[9]
The GIMP	Image manipulation software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring	no charge	The GIMP		[10]
FontMarketplace	TrueType fonts for purchase and download	commercial	FontMarketplace		[11]

Project Management & Note Taking

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
PAVONE Project Management	PAVONE Project Management IBM Lotus Notes based project management solution. It helps project managers optimize and supervise work loads and resource distribution. PAVONE Project Management has an interface for the direct use of office documents via IBM Lotus Notes or a web browser. It creates a connection between comfortable word processing and calculation in office suites and the communication, coordination and knowledge platform IBM Lotus Notes / Domino.	commercial	PAVONE AG
FreeMind	Java technology based mind mapper with OpenOffice.org file format export	no charge	SourceForge.net		[12]
GanttProject	Project management tool for creating gantt charts and resource load charts	no charge	GanttProject
OpenProj	Open source project management tool	no charge	Projity
EverNote	Note taking software similar to Microsoft OneNote	commercial	EverNote Corporation
DEVONnote	Note taking software with ODF support for the Mac platform	commercial	DEVONtechnologies
Open Workbench	Open Workbench is a free and powerful alternative to Microsoft Project	no charge	Open Workbench

Fully-integrated Desktop Stack

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
Ubuntu Linux	Integrated Linux desktop solution	no charge	Ubuntu
openSUSE powered by Novell	Integrated Linux desktop solution	commercial	open-slx [13]	Code Contributions, OpenOffice.org Conference Sponsorship	[14]
Novell Linux Desktop powered by SUSE Linux	Integrated Linux desktop solution	commercial	Novell	Code Contributions, OpenOffice.org Conference Sponsorship	[15]
Red Hat Desktop	Integrated Linux desktop solution	no charge	Red Hat	Code Contributions	[16]
Xandros Desktop Business Edition	Integrated Linux desktop solution	commercial	Xandros

Bibliography / Citation Tools

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
Zotero	Open source reference management software with OpenOffice.org support	no charge	Zotero		[17]
Citavi	Reference management software with OpenOffice.org support	no charge / commercial	Citavi

Content & Document Management Systems, Search Technology

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
PAVONE Enterprise Office	PAVONE Enterprise Office is an IBM Lotus Notes based solution for the document, address and contact data management. It has an interface for direct use of office documents via IBM Lotus Notes or a web browser. It creates a connection between comfortable word processing and calculation in office suites and the communication, coordination and knowledge platform IBM Lotus Notes / Domino.	commercial	PAVONE AG
OpenOffice.org Plugin for Alfresco	"The purpose of the plugin is to provide Alfresco functionality from within OpenOffice.org. This functionality includes the ability to: navigate Alfresco spaces, search and open documents; check documents in and out; view document details; and invoke some actions, such as work flow steps."	no charge	OpenOffice.org Plugin for Alfresco
Plone	Plone has full openDocument support with free plug-ins. AROfficeTransforms provides ODF support for indexing and online preview for Plone2 and Plone3. Plone.ConvertDaemon provides full ODF support for Plone3 and future versions. ExternalEditor provides direct link between OpenOffice.org and Plone in order to directly edit files. OOFill allows to fill ODF files with Plone native data. POD Python Open Document allows to include python commands in ODT templates in order to generate pre-filled documents. TextIndexNG is a full text indexer that supports ODF and other formats	no charge	Plone service providers
Symfoni Document Manager	Symfoni Document Manager is a general-purpose document management solution based on IBM Lotus Notes.	Commercial	Symfoni Software
Collanos Workplace	P2P multi-platform team collaboration software	no charge	Collanos Software		Blog Forum Tour Press Download
KnowledgeTree Document Management Made Simple	Open Source Document Management System that leverages OpenOffice.org for internal document management tasks	no charge	KnowledgeTree Document Management System		Blog Forums Download
Typo3	Open Source Content Management Framework	no charge	TYPO3 Association		[18]
eZ publish	Open Source Enterprise CMS	no charge	eZ systems		[19]
Lodel	Lodel is a high quality web publishing system. Document to be published may be prepared locally using OpenOffice.org	no charge	Lodel
icoya OpenContent	icoya OpenContent is the web based all-purpose solution for the creation and maintenance of powerful websites or intranets.	commercial	struktur AG	OpenOffice.org Conference Sponsor
O3Spaces	O3Space Workplace is a Document Management System which works with OpenOffice.org. O3Spaces Workplace brings document management and document collaboration features to OpenOffice.org / StarOffice and Microsoft Office, including real-time version control, automated check-in/check-out and document security...	commercial	O3 Spaces	OpenOffice.org plugin which includes Open from/Publish to Workplace, Reading/Adding of comments and reviewing any previous Document Version.	Trial Center
Fabasoft Folio	Content management and e-government solution	commercial	Fabasoft
OpenIndexer 3.0	Network fulltext search engine, SQL data storage, backup & restore of ODF, PDF and more file formats, creation of mobile archives on CD/DVD, for Win2003/XP/2K/Vista	Freeware	SAN		Flash presentation Download
Metaliquid	Fully web-based integrated content management and collaboration system	commercial	Metaliquid
PengYou - discontinued, source code still available	Document collaboration server with OpenOffice.org client (extension)	Freeware	PengYou		[20]
Paperiton DMS	Document Management System with a very easy-to-use integration to OpenOffice.org.	Commercial	Paperiton
dtSearch	"... over two dozen indexed, unindexed, full-text and fielded data search options ... built-in HTML converters for hit-highlighted display of other popular file types (MS Office, OpenOffice, ..."	Commercial	dtSearch
ServPDF 2	ServPDF 2 is a web based document conversion solution which uses OpenOffice too. ServPDF 2 supports also Adobe Acrobat (incl. 3D-PDF), Microsoft Office 2007, Ghostscript 8.61, Python Imaging and CATIA V5	no charge	Görmezer		[20]
DataDirect XQuery	"XQuery implementation that plugs easily into any Java architecture and accesses almost any data source without being dependent on underlying servers or proprietary extensions to XQuery"	Commercial	DataDirect
FABIS basic	Adress- and Contactmanagement: documents saved with the addressee, all file formats are to be saved for an overview of the in- and outgoing correspondence	Commercial	FABIS

Thin Client Solutions & Hardware Bundling OpenOffice.org

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
Linux Terminal Server Project	"LTSP is an add-on package for Linux that allows you to connect lots of low-powered thin client terminals to a Linux server."	no charge	LTSP.org	Booth space at various events
Oracle Sun Ray Ultra-thin Clients	Thin clients with support for Linux, Windows and the Solaris OS	commercial	Oracle Inc.	OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor	[21]
Asus Eee PC	Low-cost ultra-portable laptop with Linux pre-installed	commercial	ASUSTek Computer Inc.		[22] [23] [24] [25] [26]
NComputing	Sharing a regular PC with up to 7 students	commercial	NComputing		[27]
Zonbu	Subscription-based low-cost PC	commercial	Zonbu		[28]
Classmate PC	Low-cost laptop with Linux as a software option	commercial	Classmate PC
wizpy	Linux PDA similar to the Apple iPod with OpenOffice.org pre-installed	commercial	Turbolinux

Document Conversion

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
Oracle Open Office Server	Special version of Oracle Open Office optimized for server-side document conversion to PDF and document processing	commercial	Oracle.com	OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor
deskUNPDF Professional	"deskUNPDF allows you to turn your PDF documents into fully editable documents", "Supported document-based formats include the Open Document Format (.ODT) and Excel (.XLS)."	commercial	docudesk
Office2fO	"Export Filter to transform ODF documents into the XSL-FO format"	no charge	OpenEdge

Archiving

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
Xena	Software for Digital Preservation	no charge	Xena

Database Tools & Database Development Tools

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
EMS SQL Manager for SQL Server	"high performance tool for SQL Server development and administration" with ODF import/export support	no charge	EMS Database Management Solutions, Inc.
MySQL Connector for OpenOffice.org	Open Source DBMS	no charge	MySQL / Oracle Inc.	OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor	[29]
PostgreSQL	Open Source DBMS	no charge	PostgreSQL

ERP, CRM and Industry Specific Solutions

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
PAVONE Sales	PAVONE PAVONE Sales is an IBM Lotus Notes based solution for customer relationship management. It has an interface for direct use of office documents via IBM Lotus Notes or a web browser. It creates a connection between comfortable word processing and calculation in office suites and the communication, coordination and knowledge platform IBM Lotus Notes / Domino.	commercial	PAVONE AG
Elexis	Medical practice software for the Swiss market with OpenOffice.org support	no charge	Elexis
Propylon Legislative Workbench	Creation, amendment, translation and multi-channel publishing of legislative documents	commercial	Propylon	Code contributions
DATEV Software Solutions	Software solutions for attorneys and tax counselors	commercial	DATEV
abas Business Software	ERP software with OpenOffice.org support	commercial	abas
OpenAtrix	OpenAtrix's CRM4Office extends SugarCRM with OpenOffice features. Supports Reports and OpenOffice.org Mail Merge.	commercial	OpenAtrix, CRM4Office
ZuckerReports	ZuckerReports extends Sugar with reporting features (incl. OpenOffice.org mail merge support).	commercial	go-mobile
OpenOffice.org Extension for SugarCRM	Using the OpenOffice.org mail merge feature with address data from SugarCRM	no charge	java.net		[30]
Tabellio	Parliamentary Toolbox (parliament workflow ("Procedures") management, electronic and paper delivery management, ...)	no charge	Tabellio
Propylon Legislative Workbench	"The Legislative Workbench Core Modules provide the common services and architectural framework used by the Lawmaking and Chamber Business Management modules."	commercial	Propylon
OpenPlenum	German e-government software for managing hearings / meetings	commercial	PROTEXT
fd-klinika	German healthcare software for clinics	commercial	fliegel data		[31]
Advolux	German attorney solution with OpenOffice.org support	commercial	Advolux
NVinity 2.0	German ERP solution with OpenOffice.org support	commercial	Nissen & Velten Software		[32]
Strategie-Portfolio	German portfolio analysis solution with OpenOffice.org support	commercial	Aplan A		[33]
GnuAccounting	"GnuAccounting is a open source java accounting software that creates and administrates e.g. invoices and credit notes. It embeds OpenOffice to design templates and output invoices and uses MySQL or OpenOffice's HSQLDB to store transactional metadata on a central server or on the client computer."	no charge	GnuAccounting
Inforama	"Inforama allows companies to carry out document templating, generation and distribution. Create templates using OpenOffice and import existing acroforms using Inforama studio. Merge data at runtime to produce high quality PDF documents which can be emailed, printed and viewed."	no charge / commercial	OpenEdge
FABIS basic 5.0	Office solution with Address-and contactmanagement, correspondence integrates seamless OpenOffice, letters stored with the receiver, integrated masters, documentmanagement	commercial	FABIS Bertram Strätz

ODF Viewers and ODF Development Tools

Product / Solution Name	Short Description	Costs / Charges	Source / Vendor	Known Contributions to OpenOffice.org by the Vendor	Additional Resources
ODFReader	Add-on for Mozilla Firefox allowing to view ODF files	no charge			discontinued, not compatible with recent versions of Firefox
odfviewer	Standalone ODF viewer	no charge	odfviewer
Visioo-Writer	Standalone ODF viewer	no charge	Visioo-Writer
Oracle ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office	Plugin that allows opening and saving ODF files within Microsoft Office	Commercial	Oracle Inc	OpenOffice.org hosting costs, OpenOffice.org development, OpenOffice.org Conference sponsor
ODF Viewer for Firefox	Firefox extension that allow viewing ODF files within the web browser	no charge			recent version 0.2 compatible with all new version of Firefox
The lpOD Project, Perl	Perl ODF processing toolbox	no charge	CPAN
The Perl OpenDocument Connector	Perl ODF processing toolbox	no charge	CPAN