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The GNOME Office is an Office applications suite:
- Abiword word processor
- the Gnumeric spreadsheet
- Galeon, a web browser
- Gfax , sends and receives faxes
- Sodipodi and Sketch , vector drawing packages
- The GIMP, an image editing program
- Eye Of GNOME , an image viewer
- Balsa , an email client
- Novell Evolution, an email/groupware client
- Dia diagramming tool
- Guppi , a plotting and graphing program.
- Planner and Toutdoux, project management tools
- GnuCash, a personal finance manager
- Agnubis , a presentation program.
- GNOME-DB, software that provides database connectivity.
The integration between the various applications in the suite is rather loose, and therefore many consider GNOME Office to be merely the collection of desktop productivity applications written for the GNOME environment rather than an office suite in the usual sense. Integration is achieved chiefly through the BonoboBonobo is a component model for compound documents used in GNOME, a desktop environment. It is inspired by Microsoft's object linking and embedding (OLE, later the component object model) and is quite similar to it. Bonobo components are analogous to KPar component technology.
GNOME Office is intended to be a competitor to the Microsoft OfficeMicrosoft Office is a series of suites of productivity programs created by Microsoft and developed for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems. As well as the office applications, it includes associated servers and Web-based services. suite. The KOfficeKOffice is an office applications suite for the K Desktop Environment ( KDE). All its components have been released under open source licenses. The latest version of KOffice is 1. 5, which was released on November 23 2004. KOffice includes the following c suite was developed earlier, but was not at first free software according to the strict interpretation of the Free Software FoundationFree Software Foundation FSF is a non-profit organisation founded in 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project. From its founding until the mid-1990s FSF's funds were mostly used, so the GNOME desktop was created as a free alternative.
Neither suite is at this time competitive with the MicrosoftMicrosoft Corporation , headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, is the world's largest software company (with over 50,000 employees in various countries, as of May 2004). Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of software products in user base, although the feature set of both projects is getting closer to that goal.
There also exists an office suite called OpenOffice.orgOpenOffice. org OOo (the ". org" inclusion is due to a trademark dispute) is an office applications suite. It is intended to be compatible, and directly compete, with Microsoft Office. OOo is free software under the LGPL or SISSL and is available for Micr which is the free software base used to create StarOffice. Sun Microsystems is integrating OpenOffice.org with GNOME with the intention that the applications of OpenOffice.org will become part of GNOME Office.
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