If you want to demo it, you could just download Open Office, and go from there. They aren't identical, but they'll be functionally the same, so you'll at least know your way around Star.
Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cameron Nikitiuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Clug-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 6:35 AM Subject: (clug-talk) Advocacy - One Little Victory > Just thought I would let everyone ic CLUG-land know about one of my sales > yesterday. > > A customer came in and was wanting to purchase MS Office for his machine. I > presented his options to him...Standard $699...Professional $799...Small > Business Edition $209 (with purchase of a system). I also mentioned > StarOffice 6.0 as a possible option. Now keep in mind that the Manager in > this case had OK'd the purchase of the SBE without a purchase, which would > have been a great deal for the customer. After giving the customer every > chance and exscuse he choose the StarOffice. May not be much but this > gentleman is now one step closer to open source and Linux. > > I have also been trying to educate everyone else in the store, letting them > know that StarOffice is an option to Office. I had one Manager tell me > yesterday that she would definately buy it if she needed and office package. > I think I have sold both copies that I knew of in the store and in less than > 2 weeks since we have had it. Maybe they will send us more? Just so you > know, the box lists that it works with Windows, Linux and Solaris. > > I do have a couple questions though. Have one customer that wants to > develop a huge database that will evetually be distributed on CD and online. > I am thinking using a regualr database now to build his project (Access or > something similar) and then migrating to Oracle or SQL server. I was > wondering if the database in StarOffice would be acceptable for this. > Also...anyone know how the licensing works with the commercial version of > StarOffice 6.0? Single license for one machine or can you install it on > every machine? I am assuming single lincense but I am not sure. Also > looking for a demo of it so I can test it out and to see if I can convince a > manager to let me install it on one of the machine there to show it off. I > haven't found any of this information on the website and so tought I would > ask you folks. > > Cameron > > >
