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Four apps say they can replace Office. Find out which three actually can.

Office killers: Three out of four ain't bad

Office killers: Three out of four ain't bad
Of the four Microsoft Office alternatives I tested, three could reasonably be used as the personal productivity piece of an organization's software arsenal. Only Google Docs seems not quite ready to take on the full mantle of business use. Both OpenOffice.org and Zoho could serve ably for many organizations. Lotus Symphony is a mixed bag, providing capable word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations but lacking the database, communications, and collaboration capabilities that round out OpenOffice.org and Zoho.
Curtis Franklin, Jr.
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    Office killers: Three out of four ain't bad

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    Google Docs

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    Google Spreadsheets

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    IBM Lotus Symphony Documents

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    IBM Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets

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    OpenOffice.org Writer

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    OpenOffice.org Calc

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    Zoho Writer

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    Zoho Sheet

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July 15, 2008
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Tags: Google Docs, Lotus Symphony, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Zoho
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