Although this is now way OT -- I Just want you know I am not losing
it -- When Sun bought Star Office from StarDivision I had an on going
email exchanage with them on when version 5 was going to ship for the
mac (and they told me it would!) -- we actualy had 4.2 running on
system 7 machines and were planning a rollout company wide when Sun
killed it, and yes it is tough to find many references to it on the
web -- but .......
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:24:31 -0400
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From: Molly Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fwd: StarOffice
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See below for a description of Star Office for Linux, Solaris, etc.
I believe Engineering and Math went in on a site license for Wayne
State. You could contact Cliff Stallings or Lowell Hansen for more
info.... >Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:02:56 -0500 >From: "Lowell J.
Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
In case you are not aware of it, StarOffice is a MS Office-like
package >(but without a Access-like database) that runs under
Linux, Solaris, >Windows and on Macs. I downloaded it for my Linux
installation at home >(free for individual non-commercial
installations like that, but not >free for universities) and found
that it imports from and exports to a >wide variety of formats
(including all of the MS formats up to >Office97). For instance, I
have Office95 on the Windows side of my >computer at home. So I
imported two Office 97 documents >(one word and one excel) to
StarOffice and saved them in Office95 >formats. I was then able to
load them up with my Windows 95 Office 95 >package. >
Thanks
Andy
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On Jan 11, 2006, at 6:31 PM, Chad Smith wrote:
On 1/11/06, Andrew Fisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I guess there are folks at Sun that read this list -- how about
making the old Mac version of Star Office available to OS 9 users --
it would be nice to have something that gives them a solution until
they upgrade to OS X.
Sun has no interest in OS X, much less OS 9. There is no
StarOffice for Mac
- at all. I can't find anything online that says there ever was.
There are
some old stories that Sun was trying it - but those stories are
years old.
I don't think Macs are on any kind of a priority list for Sun.
There are
plenty of other things that they are working on before they would
get to
that. And Mac OS X is supported (somewhat) by OpenOffice.org - but
not by
StarOffice. This, to me, proves that Sun isn't interested in Mac -
all
they'd have to do is add their StarOffice stuff, and start selling
- but
they don't want to do that. Supporting OS 9 - which very few
people have
anymore - is even lower on the list than OS X.
I'd be happy if they got OpenOffice.org to work right on OS X - like
NeoOffice did.
--
- Chad Smith
http://www.gimpshop.net/
Because everyone loves free software!
