I find it rather odd that, while StarOffice 8 has generated quite a stir everywhere else, see, e.g.:
http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=161140,00.asp it is awfully quiet here. As everyone here is aware, StarOffice/OpenOffice.org is the only enterprise-level office suite in the history of mankind that is executable in every GUI-based platform (i.e., truly "cross-platformed"). This, plus Massachussetts' recent decision to standardize on the OpenDocument format (the default format used in the new version of SO/OOo), over the objection of Microsoft, the prospect of SO/OOo cannot be brighter. This can be the dawning of a new era. A few years ago, I heard that Sun is going to "force" everyone under Sun's roof to convert to StarOffice. I am wondering how that endeavor is coming along. But I do know that Novell has successfully converted essentially all of its 8,000 Microsoft Office licenses to OpenOffice. How will SO8 help Solaris/OpenSolaris? In the Linux underworld, because most of Linux distros do not include Sun's J2RE (necessary for a turbocharged OOo), the first thing a Linux user is told to do is to go to Sun's site to download and install Sun's J2RE. Also, the pre-fetching of OOo in Linux does not provide the same performance-boost as in Windows. Most desktop users don't care what OS their favorite applications are running under. If SO/OOo can be optimized to run on Solaris, this can be a major incentive for them to consider switching. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
