Mike Easter wrote:

> 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
>
>
> --
> Mike Easter

after reading this post for the first time i went and got SO8 and installed
it just to see if my assumption was correct and because some of my files
are from SO6 which O3O can't use. but now i am aware of OO4 i will look at
that.