Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition: Covering 12.10 and 13.04, Eighth Edition

Chapter 4. Productivity Applications

In This Chapter

• Introducing LibreOffice

• Other Office Suites for Ubuntu

• Other Useful Productivity Software

• Productivity Applications Written for Microsoft Windows

• References

Many businesses have already found a way to benefit from free and open-source software, such as office productivity suites like LibreOffice. These have the cost benefits of not having to pay license fees or support costs. However, more applications beyond these are available in Ubuntu. In this chapter, we explore some of them.

Note

It’s important to understand that even though free and open-source software does very well most of the time, especially with less-complex documents, it is not 100 percent compatible with Microsoft ...