Hi, I tried Star Office along time ago and couldn't register it since the company's website wouldn't take the code. I gave up and am now using Open Office, which is a great product. Deb _www.wowio.com_ (http://www.wowio.com) Free e-books. Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) as your referral. In a message dated 4/25/2007 7:36:40 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
William W. Austin wrote: > On 2007-04-25 12:47:46, J. David Boyd wrote: > >> Since Sun is currently selling StarOffice 8.0 for 50% off until May 7, >> I'm tempted to buy a copy. >> >> I've scanned their web site, and searched Google, but I can't get a >> definitive list of the differences between StarOffice 8.0 and >> OpenOffice.org 2.2. >> >> Does such a list exist? > > > Sorry, but I have no idea. > >> Does anyone know if the functionality of StarOffice is that much >> greater >> than OpenOffice.org? > > > I have both installed on the machine on which I am writing this. On > my system they are both in /opt (this is linux but it would look > about the same under any unixlike system. On windows, I don't know & > won't guess. > > The two "install" install directories (here) are > OOo /u/opt/openoffice2.2 > so /u/opt/staroffice8 > (your locations could differ). > Under each of these 2 directories there is a directory /share/gallery > which differs significantly between the two releases. There are many > more files under the SO directory than the OOo directory. > > Size is a good indicator here - under so8, that directory contains > 51,240 Kb of files while under OOo it has only about 7,600 Kb. > > I have tried to keep the patchlevel of so8 up to date, but overall I > find myself using OOo rather than so most of the time just because > (a) the new features/patches are available sooner, and - warning ... > this could be purely subjective - OOo seems to run a tad faster. > > The big difference is .... (have to think about this one) ... well > except for what I have listed above, I cannot think of much to say > here (OK, different logo's, but the same product). > > <soapbox> > <!-- disclaimer: turn bs filter on or skip ... it's up to you --> > I would still recommend buying the copy of so8, however. IMHO this > eventually (nanoscopically) helps Sun, and Sun is the company which > opensourced staroffice, creating OOo in the first place. In the > marketplace, I can only vote with my wallet. I don't use or buy MS > products _or_ encourage anyone else to do so. I use linux (fedora 6 > on this machine) and I encourage others to do the same. And I help > many of them through the transition). I would consider the $50 cost > of SO8 to be a "contribution to a worthwhile company" and let it go > at that - whether I installed so8 or not. (But you would pick up > some interesting graphics stuff if you did.) Just my $0.02 worth. > </soapbox> I have heard that StarOffice has vastly more extras, clip art, templates, fonts etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
