Stand-alone, built in processor. Does not require any third party software like Microsoft Word or WordPerfect.    

They require that you have third party software. Not cost effective to use for Amharic/Ethiopic.

E-mail enabled and does not require the recipient to have AddisWord. Install the e-mail component for free (click here) and that is all you need to read e-mail in Amharic or  read web pages written in AddisWord                    

The recipient must have the software to read in Amharic

Built in email server to send out email. Works with AOL, Yahoo and Hotmail. Does not require SMTP ISP server. Your computer becomes the server

Requires ISP's SMTP server to send E-mail.

Automatic configuration for e-mail setup.

Must remember configuration given from your ISP.

Built-in tables giving you spread-sheet like layout

Requires other third party tools to do tabular computation

Engine written for the Ethiopic language enabling future growth.  

At the mercy of vendors for future growth

Costs only $135

If you add the cost to obtain the actual word processing package like MS Word, total cost will be astronomical just to write in Ethiopic.

User Friendly .... Testimony

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Easily create Web pages in Ethiopic/Amharic. Built-in feature.

Need third party tool