
To correspond to Microsoft's Visio, there's OpenOffice's Draw. OpenOffice's Base is similar to Access 2003. There's more to both office suites, of course. These tools are also free, open-source, and often used with OpenOffice, although they need to be installed separately. We'll compare Outlook 2003 with Thunderbird (email) and Sunbird (calendar), made by the Mozilla Corporation.

Email tools and calendaring are also a critical part of an office suite, but hasn't released any email or calendar software. An office suite just isn't an office suite without a spreadsheet, so we'll look at Excel 2003 vs. We have to talk about Word Processors, of course, which means Microsoft's Word 2003 vs. The applications packaged together aren't completely analogous, so we will limit this article's comparisons to a couple of areas: Unfortunately, comparing office suites isn't an exact science.

We will compare Microsoft Office 2003 Professional to 2.0 - or at least some key parts of these suites. Should you consider OpenOffice? Will it make sense for your users and organization? What are the differences between these two office suites? But in the last couple of years, a viable open-source option has emerged:.

For a while, nonprofit organizations' choice of office suites was limited to Microsoft Office or.
