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Office Suites Competitive Analysis
Desktop vs. SaaS
Component/Function Microsoft IBM Lotus Sun StarOffice Google Yahoo
Email  Outlook, OE Notes      
Email - SaaS
Capacity		 Hotmail
5GB		   Gmail
~4.5GB		 Mail
Unlimited
Calendar y y   y y
Package Office 2007 Symphony StarOffice 8 Apps  
 File Sharing Office Live Planned   Included  
 Disk Space ~1000 files NA   3-25GB  
Documents Word Documents Writer Documents  
 Read / Write doc,docx odt,doc odt,doc odt,doc  
 Templates & Samples 32 0 54 n  
 Header & Footer y y y n  
 TOC y y y n  
Presentations PowerPoint Presentations Impress Presentations  
 Read / Write ppt,pptx odp,ppt odp,ppt odp,ppt / zip  
 Slide Themes 19 20 73 15  
 Samples 6 0 20 n  
 Animation y y y n  
Spreadsheets Excel Spreadsheets Calc Spreadsheets  
 Read / Write xls,xlsx ods,xls ods,xls ods,xls  
 Templates & Samples 9 0 6 n  
 Charts & Graphs y y y n  
Drawing Visio   Draw    
 Read / Write vsd,vdx   odg    
Data Base Access   Base    
 Read / Write mdb,accdb   odb    
Cost $150 - students
$500 - others		 Free download $70 from Sun
Free via Google		 $50/user/year
Free for others		 Free

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