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
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.
Yes, that is true that a good portion of the extras in StarOffice can be
added in to OpenOffice.org via the extensions. There are still some
proprietary elements in StarOffice such as the commercial grade spell
checker.
For the current StarOffice vs. OpenOffice.org differences, take a look
here... question 13.
http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/faqs/technical.jsp#q_13
(this is a more details link than the ones I provided earlier)
StarOffice and OpenOffice.org should always be in synch (ie not one
lagging behind the other).
C.
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Clayton Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany
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