[Gllug] Star Office/ Open Office.org

[Richard Cohen]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Ian Baillie wrote:

> 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?

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

> Ian

Cheers
Richard

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