Stephen Rose wrote:
I found OpenOffice on sale at a computing website (www.funkyputer.com <http://www.funkyputer.com/> ) and would like to know if you have a commercial version?
You have probably already gotten several replies on this, but in case you haven't . . .
OpenOffice.org is a commercial product. By "commercial" I mean stable, fully-featured, and on par with other well-known office suites, such as Microsoft Office and the Corel office suite. It has been developed by Sun Microsystems in collaboration with a huge volunteer developer base, and is in use by many large corporations and governments around the world. The only real difference between OpenOffice.org and more "traditional" products is that OpenOffice.org is not "commercial" in that sense that you have to pay for it; you are free to download the application (an the source code, if you wish) and install it on as many computers as you want, give as many copies away as you want, or even modify it, rebrand it, and sell it as your own product (provided you comply with the requirements of the license). Yeah, I know . . . sounds too good to be true, but for once it's not. In fact, the fact that the application is "free" has been one of the major obstacles in marketing the thing: people tend to be suspicious of stuff that's just given away (and for good reason).
If you really WANT to pay for it, you can buy StarOffice, which is Sun Microsystems' rebranded version. StarOffice has some extra tools and goodies thrown in, and I believe Sun provides live technical support for StarOffice purchasers (although I don't really know much about it myself.)
You can get more information here: http://www.openoffice.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openoffice.org http://www.oooforum.org/ Enjoy! -- Steven Shelton Twilight Media & Design www.TwilightMD.com www.GLOAMING.us --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
