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If you have contacts at Abiword or Novell, please tell them that I’d be delighted to run an interview with them as well, as the hope is to provide a complete, comparative picture of the entire ODF ecosystem. I have exchanged email with folks at Writely and Gnumeric, but do not yet have commitments to be interviewed from either of them. My hope is to present a complete set of interviews, including also Google Writely, Abiword, Novell and Gnumeric.
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The next interview in this series will describe IBM’s Workplace Managed Client. All concerned will have the opportunity to make final comments at the end of the series - and if you have comments to make based upon personal experience, by all mean, please add them as comments to this or any other intereview. Inge Wallin of KOffice, and Louis Suarez-Potts and John McCreesh of OpenOffice took me up on the offer, and their responses appear at the end of the interview. Since SoftMaker was not mentioned in the earlier interviews, which invited each respondent to compare its product to those of its competitors, I invited KOffice, OpenOffice and StarOffice to respond to this interview, with Dr. (The prior interviews can be found as follows: with Inge Wallin of KOffice here, with Louis Suarez-Potts and John McCreesh of here, and with Erwin Tenhumburg of StarOffice here.) Īnd that, of course, is the point of this series of interviews: presenting each competing product in detail illustrates the rich environment of applications and tools that are evolving around the OpenDocument Format ( ODF) specification developed by OASIS, and now adopted by ISO/IEC.
Perhaps most interesting is its availability on mobile devices, and the fact that it has been selected by AMD for bundling with its ambitious "50x15" plan, which hopes to connect 50% of the world population to the Internet by 2015.
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While SoftMaker Office is not as well known outside of Germany as KOfiice, another German ODF-compliant software suite, it has a number of interesting and useful unique features, as does each of the other suites that I have featured in this series of interviews.
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Unlike some of the other products profiled so far, SoftMaker Office 2006 currently includes only word processor and spreadsheet functions and is still bringing its product up to full ODF compliance. Martin Sommer, SoftMaker Product Manager, of Germany's SoftMaker Software GmbH. In this fourth in-depth interview focusing on ODF-compliant office productivity suites, I interview Dr.
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