On 3/19/06, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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.
No - there is no email client or browser or any addition "programs" included in StarOffice, as opposed to the free OpenOffice.org. What you are "paying for" is (1) professional support (2) Sun's corporate accountability (3) some templates (4) a whole lot of file format filters (mostly really old ones - and rare ones) and (5) the ability to patch new releases in instead of downloading and installing the whole suite again.. Of course, if you are a student, teacher, or otherwise in the education field - you can get all that for free. StarOffice is free for educational users. 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. Not at all - they've been completely removed - not updated. 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. > yeppers. -- - 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...
