Open Office question

[whayface]

Could someone tell me what the difference is between Open Office and Star
Office which WAS freeware?

TIA

 

[Falkon]

Could someone tell me what the difference is between Open Office and Star
Office which WAS freeware?

TIA

It is explained here....
http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-other.html#12

Note the last free version of StarOffice was version 5.2.
Considering StarOffice is now at version 7, it is considerably out of date.
If you still want it you can download it from:
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/staroffice/5.2/win32/

 

[Sparky]

Could someone tell me what the difference is between Open Office and Star
Office which WAS freeware?

TIA

StarOffice 5.2 has

-Adabas Database
-Additional Fonts
-Expanded Dictionary/Spellchecking

Fwiw;

I've been test-running the Staroffice 2.0 beta which includes a database
for the past couple of months. Very stable, very robust. Although I
wouldn't use it on production-level stuff (it's beta), when it does go
final, I'm sure it'll be the MS Office-slayer.


-Sparky

 

[Aquila Deus]

StarOffice 5.2 has

-Adabas Database
-Additional Fonts
-Expanded Dictionary/Spellchecking

Fwiw;

I've been test-running the Staroffice 2.0 beta which includes a database
for the past couple of months. Very stable, very robust. Although I

wouldn't use it on production-level stuff (it's beta), when it does go
final, I'm sure it'll be the MS Office-slayer.

It doesn't run on win2003 here, and the total proformance on linux is
so slow that I *cannot* even use it to read a .ppt! (it takes 10+
seconds to redraw!).

OOo 2 is fine here though, and the table alignment problem has been
solved. But I hate the MSI installer

 

[Svante Boberg]

http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/mostfaqs.html#7