[Gllug] Star Office/ Open Office.org

[Ian Baillie]

Thanks... It's just that I saw them selling StarOffice in PC World c. 
£50, and wondered what it had now that OOo was out there.  Thanks for 
the link too....

Ian

Richard Cohen wrote:

>On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Ian Baillie wrote:
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>>Apart from the fact that one is commercial and the other is open source,
>>what differences are there functionality or otherwise between Star
>>Office and OpenOfffice.org?
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>http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/openoffice/docs/SO_Comparison_OOo_2.1.pdf
>is the official answer..
>
>To summarise:
>One costs money, one doesn't
>OO.org supports more languages currently
>OO.org supports more platforms
>Different spellchecker - SO is commercial
>More templates/clipart/etc. in SO
>More/better import filters in SO
>More/better fonts in SO
>Adabas Database stuff in SO
>Better config/management tools in SO
>SO comes with hard-copy manuals
>SO is commercially-QAed
>Commercial training for SO is available
>Commercial and enterprise support for SO is available
>
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>>Ian
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>Cheers
>Richard
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