OSS for companies: Open Office

II-2.1-Open Office

Because Open Office is to my point of view the software which the most used by public basic user(people which are not IT specialist) I think it has his place in this report

II-2.1.1-Presentation of the software

I will describe the Open Office software as an office suite with a lot of common points with the Microsoft Office software with exactly the same functionalities.

For example in this software you find the equivalent of Excel,PowerPoint,Word,Access of Microsoft Windows.

They are respectively named Calc,Impress,Writer,Base under Open Office and two others applications are added: Math(create mathematical equations with a graphic user interface or by directly typing formulas into the equation editor) and Draw(produce everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D illustrations).