On 19/03/2006, at 4:32 PM, Chad Smith wrote:
On 3/19/06, Fred A. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The URL is dated May 25, 2004. Microsoft quotes JUKEBOX as
claiming
that
they supposedly switched claims they migrated to OpenOffice in the
late
1990's.
<snip>
Sun didn't release the proprietary StarOffice 5.2 source code to
the Open
Source community until Oct 13, 2000
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/
00/10/13/001013hnstaroffice.html
StarOffice by StarDivision also had free releases that were
available in the
late 90s.
http://linuxgazette.net/issue09/staroffice.html
http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~plug/mail_archive/9811/0091.html
Since OpenOffice.org *is* the updated free version of the
StarOffice from
the late 1990s - it is fair to use the same name for both products.
Hi Chad,
I can see why you would suggest that argument, but the issue I have
with that is that the original StarOffice which was released was very
different to the OpenOffice.org that is in use now. Before you make
the comment that is was based on the late 1990's, the case study
talks about converting to MS Office in 2005, not in 1990's, which is
their comparison. As you say, they may simply group them together,
but I would say that OpenOffice.org in 2005 was very different to
StarOffice 5.2 as a product.
Regards
Jonathon
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