GNOME Office is an office suite containing: In computers, an office applications suite, sometimes called an office suite, productivity suite, offimatic suite or integrated offimatic program, is a application software intended to be used by typical clerical and knowledge workers. ...

• Abiword word processor
• Gnumeric spreadsheet
• 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 Bonobo component technology. AbiWord is a free word processing program under the GPL which runs on Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, SkyOS, and other operating systems. ... A word processor (also more formally known as a document preparation system) is a computer application used for the production (including composition, editing, formatting, and possibly printing) of any sort of viewable or printed material. ... Gnumeric is a free spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME desktop. ... A spreadsheet is a rectangular table (or grid) of information, often financial information. ... The GNOME-DB project aims to provide a free unified data access architecture to the GNOME project for all Unix platforms. ... Lawn Gnome A gnome is a mythical creature characterized by small stature and living underground. ... Bonobo is a component model for compound documents used in GNOME, a desktop environment. ...

GNOME Office is intended to be a competitor to the Microsoft Office suite. The KOffice suite was developed earlier, but was not at first free software according to the strict interpretation of the Free Software Foundation, so the GNOME desktop was created as a free alternative. Microsoft Office is a series of suites of productivity programs created by Microsoft and developed for Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating systems. ... Kword screenshot Kspread screenshot KOffice is an office applications suite for the K Desktop Environment (KDE). ... Free software is software which is free as in freedom, not as in beer (also refered to as libre or freedom software as distinct from gratis or no cost software). ... Free 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. ... GNOME (for GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a computer desktop environment for UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems. ...

Neither suite is at this time competitive with the Microsoft products in user base, although the feature set of both projects is getting closer to that goal. Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT) headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. ...

There also exists an office suite called OpenOffice.org 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. OpenOffice. ... StarOffice (also known as StarSuite) is Sun Microsystemss commercial office suite software package. ... Sun Microsystems Logo Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: SUNW) is a Silicon Valley-based computer, semiconductor and software manufacturer. ... Lawn Gnome A gnome is a mythical creature characterized by small stature and living underground. ...

See also

• List of office suites
• Comparison of office suites
• List of open-source software packages

The following is a list of office suites. ... This is a list of open-source software packages: Computer software licensed under an open source license. ...

External links

• GNOME Office home page (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/)