Jonathon Coombes wrote: > 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. >
I'll second that. StarOffice was actually a step backwards when compared to WordPerfect 5.1 - but once OO.o got rid of such cruft as the StarOffice Desktop, it became a much better package.
