darklight wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>
>> Dr. Deb wrote:
>>
>>> Will try each one and keep on until one makes it work.
>>
>> What is the principle basis for your interest in Star Office 8 as
>> opposed to OO 2.4.0 with additional extensions or other resources --
>> or even OO 3.0b for that matter?

> could it be a case of simple curiosity, even i took a look at it as i
> use to use staroffice before openoffice passed it!!!!

Star Office is also supposed to have some features which OO does not.
I'm not sure how SO8 compares and contrasts to OO3.

My understanding is that the OO code doesn't include all of the SO code
because Sun pays some licensing fees to others for some pieces and parts
of SO, and that's what you get for your money. According to one of my
favorite word processor comparison sites^1 which is fairly uptodate,
these are the differences in OO/SO:

<snip>
Those things which are present in StarOffice but are not available on
OpenOffice.org are not extraordinarily different but include:

Certain fonts (including, especially, Asian-language fonts)
The database component Adabas D
Additional templates
Extensive Clip Art Gallery
Some sorting functionality (Asian versions)
Additional file filters
Commercial spell checker and thesaurus
Migration assessment tool (Enterprise Edition)
Macro migration tool (Enterprise Edition)
Configuration management tools
</snip>
^1 http://www.donationcoder.com/Reviews...cs/#openoffice


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Mike Easter