raphael.semeteys@atosorigin.com Raphael Semeteys en KWord 1.4 32 GNU LGPL http://www.koffice.org/kword/ Word processor from the KDE Office suite (KOffice) http://ktown.kde.org/~binner/klax/ (Klax Live CD) 1.7 wordprocessor kword 1

Generic criteria from QSOS version 1.6 Intrinsic durability Maturity less than 3 months if between 3 months and 3 years after 3 years 2 Porject started in 1997. In 2000 a new maintainer redisigned the architecture and fixed a lot of bugs. Unstable software with numerous releases or patches generating side effects Stabilized production release existing but old. Difficulties to stabilize developpement releases Stabilized software. Releases provide bug fixes corrections but mainly new functionalities 1 Software knows several problems which can be prohibitive No know major problem or crisis History of good management of crisis situations 1 The Koffice project is sometimes critized for adding new features rather fixing bugs. However, different teams work on those tasks. Software is very likely to be forked in the future Software comes from a fork but has very few chances of being forked in the future Software has very little chance of being forked. It does not come from a fork either 2 Risk is reduced by the LGPL license and the fact that copyrigths are owned by contributors. Adoption by community and industry Very few users identified Detectable use on Internet Numerous users, numerous references 1 Kword popularity is linked to KDE's. For now it's used is forbidden to Widows users. None Few refences, non critical usages Often implemented for critical applications 1 Few references in the industry. No community or without real activity (forum, mailing list, ...) Existing community with a notable activity Strong community: big activity on forums, numerous contributors and advocates 1 No very large community but an active mailing list. No book about the software Less than 5 books about the software are available More than 5 books about software are available, in several languages 1 "Mastering KOffice for Linux" was released in 2000. No other books seem to have been published since. Organisation and leadership of developments 1 to 2 individuals involved, not clearly identified Between 2 and 5 independent people More than 5 people 1 The project's maintainer is clearly identified. Complete dictatorship Enlightened despotism Council of architects with identified leader (e.g: KDE) 1 Kword follow KDE rules: it is managed by a maintainer but important decisions are voted by all contributors. Activity of the project and around the software Less than 3 developers, not clearly identified Between 4 and 7 developers, or more unidentified developers with important turnover More than 7 developers, very stable team 1 7 identified developers. Stable team, which still includes project's creator. Slow reactivity in forum or on mailing list, or nothing regarding bug fixes in releases note Detectable activity but without process clearly exposed, loing reaction/resolution time Strong reactivity based on roles and tasks assignment 2 Bug tracking tool used, with weekly statistics generation. No or few new functionalities Evolution of the product driven by the core team or by user's request without any clearly explained process Tool(s) to manage feature requests, strong interaction with roadmap 1 Feature requests can be entered in the bug tracker. Very weak activity on both production and development releases Activity on production and developmenet releases. Frequent minor releases (bug fixes) Important activity with frequent minor releases (bugs fixes) and planned major releases relating to the roadmap forcast 2 Planned released, with freeze of new features before each new release (even minor ones). Industrialization level of the project Developments realized at 100% by employees of a single company 60% maximum 20% maximum 1 Kwork, like KOffice and KDE, is thighly linked with Qt, developed by Trolltech and under a dual license (open source and proprietary). Otherwise, developments are independents. Services offering No offer of training identified Offer exists but is restricted geographically and to one language or is provided by a single contractor Rich offers provided by several contractors, in serveral languages and split into modules of gradual levels 1 Generally included in Koffice or even KDE training. No offer of support except via public forums and mailing lists Offer exists but is provided by a single contractor without strong commitment quality of services Multiple service providers with strong commitment (e.g: guaranteed resolution time) 1 Around 50 offers referenced on the project's website. Commercial Linux distribution like Mandiva ou SuSE also provide support services. No offer of consulting service Offer exists but is restricted geographically and to one language or is provided by a single contractor Consulting services provided by different contractors in serveral languages 1 Around 60 offers referenced on the project's website. No user documentation Documentation exists but shifted in time, is restricted to one language or is poorly detailed Documentation always up to date, translated and possibly adapted to different target readers (end user, sysadmin, manager, ...) 2 Documentation is been translated in 23 languages (9 are complete). API are described via Doxygen. Quality assurance process No QA process Identifies QA process but not much formalized and with no tool Automatic testing process included in code's life-cycle with publication of results 1 Respect of KDE QA: planned releases, freeze of new features before each release. No bug or feature request management tool Standard tools provided (for instance by a hosting forge) but poorly used Very active use of tools for roles/tasks allocation and progress monitoring 2 Central bug tracker and feature request tool. Tools to survey contributors activity (Commit-Digest, CommitFilter). No automatic test suite. Packaging for various operating systems BSD The software is not packaged for FreeBSD A port exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support A official port exists in FreeBSD 2 http://freebsd.kde.org/ The software is not packaged for Mac OS X A package exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support The software is packaged in the distribution 0 The software is not packaged for NetBSD A port exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support A official port exists in NetBSD 2 The software is not packaged for OpenBSD A port exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support A official port exists in OpenBSD 2 Linux The software is not packaged for Debian A Debian package exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support The software is packaged in the distribution 2 The software is not packaged for Mandriva A package exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support The software is packaged in the distribution 2 The software is not packaged for Red Hat/Fedora A package exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support The software is packaged in the distribution 2 The software is not packaged for SuSE A package exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support The software is packaged in the distribution 2 Software can't be installed from source without lot of work Installation from source is limited and depends on very strict conditions (OS, arch, lib, ...) Installation from source is easy 1 Qt 3.3, kdelibs 3.3 Unix The software is not packaged for AIX A package exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support A stable package is provided for AIX The software is not packaged for HP-UX A package exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support A stable package is provided for HP-UX 0 The software is not packaged for Solaris A package exists but it has important issues or it doesn't have official support (e.g: SunFreeware.com ) The software is supported by Sun for Solaris 2 The project can't be installed on Windows A package exists but it is limited or has important issues or just cover some specific Windows release (e.g: Windows 2000 and Windows XP) Windows is full supported and a package is provided 0 New versions of Qt are ported to Windows. Wait and see... Exploitability level Difficult to use, requires an in depth knowledge of the software functionality Austere and very technical ergonomics GUI including help functions and elaborated ergonomics 2 User-friendly GUI, coherent with KDE. No administrative or monitoring functionalities Existing, functionalities but uncomplete and or need improvement Complete and easy-to-use administration and monitoring functionalities. Possible integration with external tools (e.g: SNMP, syslog, ...) 0 NA Technical adaptability Monolithic software Presence of hight level modules allowing a first level of software adaptation Modular conception, allowing easy adaptation of the software by selecting or creating modules 2 C++ modular code. Kword is independent from other components of KOffice. Everything by hand Recompilation possible but complex without any tools or documentation Recompilation with tools (e.g: make, ANT, ...) and documentation provided 1 Relatively complex code. Compilation is documented. Any modification requires code recompilation Architecture designed for static extension but requires recompilation Principle of plugin, architecture designed for dynamic extension without recompilation 1 Recompilation required. Identified extention area: document format filters. Project's strategy License, only if user wants to become owner of code Very strict license, like GPL Moderate permissive license located between both extremes (GPL and BSD) dual-licensing depending on the type of user (person, company, ...) or their activities Very permissive like BSD or Apache licenses 1 Very permissive like BSD or Apache licenses Moderate permissive license located between both extremes (GPL and BSD), dual-licensing depending on the type of user (person, company, ...) or their activies Very strict license, like GPL 1 Qt (provided by Trolltech) is under a dual license. However a deal between Torlltech and KDE e.V. guarantees that Qt will stay open source, and will become BSD code in case of end of development. Rights held by a few individuals or entities, making it easier to change the license Rights held by numerous individuals owning the code in a homogeneous way, making relicense very difficult Rights held by a legal entity in whom the community trusts (e.g: FSF or ASF) 1 No pratical way to propose code modification Tools provided to access and modify code (like CVS or SVN) but not really used to develop the software The code modification process is well defined, exposed and respected, based on roles assignment 1 Source code available with a large development guide (more than 1000 pages). No published roadmap Existing roadmap without planning Versionned roadmap, with planning and measure of delays 1 Macroscopic roadmap. Software has no sponsor, the core team is not paid Software has an unique sponsor who might determine its strategy Software is sponsored by industry No detectable strategy or strong dependency on one unique actor (person, company, sponsor) Strategical vision shared with several other free and open source projects but without strong commitment from copyrights owners Strong independence of the code team, legal entity holding rights, strong involvement in the standardization process 2 The non-profit German association KDE e.V. exists to represent legally and financially the project.

Basic functionalities of a word processor Basic transversal features not specific to word processors The word processor is a standalone application not integrated in an office suite The word processor is part of a larger suite but ther is integration between the components The word processor is fully integrated into a larger Office suite 2 KOffice Other components provided by the Office suite Spreadsheets (KSpread), Slides (KPresenter), Flowcharts (Kivio), Vectorial drawing (Karbon14), Image processing (Krita), Reporting (Kugar), Project management (KPlato), Schemas (KChart), Formulas (Kformula), Database forms (Kexi) There is not integration between the components of the suite. Or there is no suite at all. Different components of the suite are integrated but it is limited Differents components used shared code and libraries and /or use a specific framework to exchange and communicate 2 Idenpendents modules sharing the same basic libraries (Qt, kdelibs) and communication mecanism (DCOP scipts, Kparts) No localisation possible. Localisation is possible but limited (no or poor documentation translation for instance) with very few existing locale Localisation is fully implemented, with several locale, UNICODE and bi-directionnal language support 2 UNICODE and bi-directional language support. No vertical language support. Translations under way in 66 languages (22 are complete) cf.http://i18n.kde.org/stats/gui/stable/koffice/index.php No accessibility features supported. Few accessibility features but limited and not compliant with accessibility standards Accessibility is really integrated in the software and it complies with standards 1 Keyboard navigation. Accessibility based on KDE features (http://accessibility.kde.org) No corrupt document recovery feature Feature is available but limited and/or not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable 0 This leaves the option to manually tweak XML files Software is not customizable Software is customizable but it is limited to few elements Software is fully customizable (menus, toolbars, shortcuts, ...) 2 No Help features or of very poor quality which make them not usable Some Help feature but not very user friendly and limited in coverage or in quality Help features of good quality and very intuitive (contextual help, searchable help, ...) 2 User help og good quality (it is the official documentation) Standard word processing features Feature not implemented Feature implemented but not for all elements of a document (for instance table, headers/footers, ...) or not really usable Feature fully implemented and usable 0 Feature not implemented Feature implemented but limited or not really usable Feature fully implemented and usable 0 Feature not implemented Feature implemented but limited or not really usable Feature fully implemented and usable 0 Feature not implemented Feature implemented but limited or not really usable Feature fully implemented and usable 2 Search on word, regex, formats (font, color, ...) No way to navigate through the different objects of a document Feature implemented but limited or not reallu usable Feature fully implemented and usable 2 List of different supported modes to display a document No possibility to insert any field in a document Few fields can be inserted but it is limited Meta-data, custom fields and variable, statistics, ... can be inserted anywhere in the document 2 No feature available to insert shortcuts to other part of the document or to external documents Feature available but limited to some part or object of the document only Feature fully implemented to all part or objects of a document 1 Hypertext bookmark/link system. Bookmarks must be defined fisrt. Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited and/or not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable 2 Internal and external links. Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited and/or not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable 2 Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited and/or not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable 2 Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited and/or not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable 0 Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited, for instance the index is not fully editable or customizable Feature fully implemented and usable 1 Editable table of contents (format). Feature not implemented Feature is available but not for all objects of the document Feature fully implemented and usable 2 Managed styles: characters, lists, borders and tables. Style manager allows style creation, modification, copy, import from other document. Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited and/or not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable 2 Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited and/or not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited to few languages and/or is not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable 0 Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited and/or not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable 0 Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited and/or not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable 2 Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited, for instance the list is not editable Feature fully implemented and usable 2 Predefined and editable list + list based on words already present in the document Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited, for instance the list is not editable Feature fully implemented and usable 2 Predefined and editable list. Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited and/or not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable 0 Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited and/or not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable 1 Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited and/or not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable 0 Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited and/or not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable 0 Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited and/or not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable 0

Supported document formats, macros features & supported APIs List of document formats supported by the word processor SXW (OpenOffice.org), DOC, WRI (Microsoft Write), RTF, TXT, HTML, ABW (AbiWord), Tex, SGML, XML, WML, WPD (WordPerfect) OpenDocument format is not supported OpenDocument format is not supported for all objects inside a document OpenDocument format is fully supported 2 Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited Feature fully implemented and usable 0 Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited Feature fully implemented and usable 0 Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited Feature fully implemented and usable 2 Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited Feature fully implemented and usable 0 Macros are not supported Macros features are very limited, for instance not all document's objects are managed Macros features are fully implemented 0 List of supported macro languages NA Feature not implemented Feature is limited and not easy to reuse Feature fully implemented 0 NA No IDE available for macro editing An IDE is available but is limited and/or not user-friendly Complete and user-friendly IDE available 0 NA No macro deployment features implemented Limited deployment features available Complete deployment features available 0 NA No security features implemented for macros Limited security features available Complete securtity features available List of available scripting and/or programming languages bindings Scripting via DCOP (Desktop COmmunications Protocol) which allows communication from shell, python, perl, php, ruby, etc...

Mailing (mail merge) features No mailing features implemented Mailing engine is limited or unstable Mailing engine is complete and stable 1 Feature not implemented Very few types of datasources available Many types of datasources available SQLServer, MySQL, PostgreSQL, UnixODBC, internal storage Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited and/or not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable 0 Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited and/or not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable 2 No possibility to define different views of a same document Limited features available Feature fully implemented 2 Feature not implemented Feature is available but limited and/or not really efficient Feature fully implemented and usable 0 No possibility to generate conditional text Conditional text is implemenetd but limited to basic conditions Conditional text is fully implemented 0 No feature available to include slave documents in a master one Document composition is possible but limited and/or unstable Document composition is stable and fully implemented 0 No drawing tools available Few drawing features available Complete set of drawing features available 1 Integrated with KOffice deawing tools. No groupware features available Limited or experimental groupware features available Complete set of groupware features available 0