ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote:
Michael Mery wrote:
Friends: I have been using StarOffice for a couple of months and see
that OpenOffice is also available. Are there significant differences,
or advantages of OpenOffice? which would you suggest using? I found
StarOffice through the GoogleUpdate system and now see that OpenOffice
is available. any suggestions? thanks.
Good question. The simple answer is... at their core, StarOffice and
OpenOffice.org are the same. Star Office provides proprietary extras
that are not included in OpenOffice.org (more import/export filters, a
commercial quality spell checker, extra fonts, extra templates, clipart
etc.)
http://www.sun.com/software/star/openoffice/index.xml
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice
C.
I do believe the "extras" stated above can be added via extensions to
OpenOffice.org. Language Tools extension for grammar checking, fonts
can be found almost anywhere, and templates/clipart can be installed as
well. All for free. I do believe also that OpenOffice.org's core is a
little newer than Star Office's core. From what I gather from what I
have read from numerous blogs on the subject is that Star Office is
always one step behind Open Office.org b/c of it's dependency on the
OpenOffice.org core. If I am mistaken please feel free to correct me.
Jason
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