> > On 30 Sep 2010, at 02:44, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > > > > I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but the > update 9 of Solaris 10 has finally switched to > OpenOffice.org. Thus, it seems that Oracle also > silently RIP'd StarOffice (actually the decision was > already made during Sun's time). > > IIRC, Sun simply decided that it didn't make business > sense to give away a non-free (as in beer) product, > i.e. StarOffice, with a freely-downloadable product, > i.e. Solaris 10. StarOffice, now called Oracle Open > Office, never went away, and is still available to > buy: > <http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/open-o > ffice/index.html> > > Cheeri, > Calum. > > -- > CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle > Corporation Ireland Ltd. > mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris > Desktop Team > http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 > 9771 > > Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those > of Oracle Corp. > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org >
Despite Oracle's unequivocal statements that the Oracle Open Office is, at the binary level, identical to the freely-downloadable OpenOffice.org, many still think otherwise. Of course, it takes a lot more than just the binary to satisfy a business user. This where the Enterprise Edition of Oracle Open Office comes in. However, believe or not, there are still a large number of intelligent people (and that include almost everyone who's running a business) who do not believe in free products. For those, Oracle is also providing the Oracle Open Office Standard Edition at a substantially reduced price. At least you get a peace of mind. Both the Enterprise Edition and the Standard Edition of the Oracle Open Office allow a StarOffice/StarSuite user to seamlessly transition to the OpenOffice.org binary. Thus, from the user's point of view, Oracle Open Office is a continuation (as well as the combination) of the previously uncombinable StarOffice and StarSuite (or East and West). But from a technical point of view, both StarOffice and StarSuite are, deservedly so, gone, dead, kaput, 6-feet under. And it took a 30-billion man to do that. Further discussions on this subject will be moved to the Taiwan OpenSolaris Users Group. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
