On Sunday 19 March 2006 02:00, Chad Smith wrote: >On 3/19/06, Jonathon Coombes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Chad, > >Hello. > >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. > >Yes - and MSO 2003 is different than MSO 98. But whenever you do a > case study - that case study is stuck in time. You can't always > predict future behavior or results on past performance - > unfortunately, that's all we mere mortals got to work with. In a lot > of ways, I wish OOo was more like the old StarOffice - with the > browser, the email client, and all that other stuff they got rid of.
I may be miss-understanding the difference between the two products, but isn't that part of what you still get for buying staroffice with real money? That may be rhetorical as I haven't checked their site for a feature list in at least a year now. Frankly, I fooled with 5.2 a wee bit, and wasn't impressed in the least with the mail agent. Even then, kmail blew it right out of the water. Then I didn't get back into this till about 1.2, and at that point it was a whole new ball game, so I'd assume that the browser and email agent in staroffice has now been gussied up considerably, no doubt by borrowing heavily from FOSS to do it. Considering what Sun has given us with the current openoffice, that doesn't bother me a bit. Somebody has to make payroll at the end of the week. >-- >- Chad Smith >http://www.gimpshop.net/ >http://www.whatisopenoffice.org/ >Because everyone loves free software! >http://www.chadwsmith.com/ >Because, admit it, you've got nothing better to do right now... -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
