Office Alternatives:
Evermore (The Chinese Office Suite)
Ships
Corel (WordPerfect) 12
Evermore (The Chinese Office
Suite) Ships
We’ve written before (http://www.wohl.com/wa04-16.htm
and http://www.wohl.com/wa03-92.htm)
about Evermore, the Chinese Office Suite with an uncanny resemblance
to Microsoft Office Suite and good interoperability (about the same
level as OpenOffice 1.1. Written in Java, EIOffice w004 can run on
Windows or Linux. It
integrates word processing, spreadsheet, and presentations into a
single application with a unified user interface and a single data
repository.
The product is now shipping to users in
the U.S. and China.
You can get information at www.evermoresw.com.
The Chinese company, Wuxi Evermore
Software Inc. has made a deal with Japan’s Internet Telephone
Company to develop a Japanese language version of the product.
Corel (WordPerfect) 12
Corel now bills its WordPerfect Office
Suite as “the other Office” and as a “value priced
alternative.” Corel
executive Richard Carriere, Director of Office Productivity, claims
that the Corel WordPerfect suite is as much as 63% lower priced than
Microsoft’s comparable offering.
WordPerfect once ruled the word
processing market, in the number one position for PC word processing
software from the mid-eighties until 1991, when Microsoft Word
displaced it. The
product has 18 million users worldwide and is viewed as a
value-priced option, with a rich, mature feature set and good
interoperability with Microsoft’s Office applications.
New features include a Workspace Mangers
which permits the user interface to be customized to be more like
Microsoft Office, Lotus 1-2-3, or older versions of WordPerfect, as
well as special editions such as Legal.
Users can publish documents to PDF and XML formats.
WordPerfect Office 12 is now available
through Corel's network of reseller and distribution partners.
Suggested retail price runs from $299.99 for the full version to
$99.99 for a student and teacher edition.
A professional edition, including the Paradox database is
priced at $349.99. Lower
upgrade pricing, for both WordPerfect and competitive product users,
is available.
We still see WordPerfect being used in
legal offices, in state and local government, and in small offices
where price and value is an important issue.
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