On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
> Can someone please do a "side-by-side" comparison of Star-Office vs
>ApplixWare? Particularly size, speed, system requirements, etc. I'm
I have seen comparisons like this on the net. Maybe www.linuxgazette.com,
but I don't remember exactly. Try searching with hotbot or something using
keywords applixware and staroffice (both simultaneously).
One comparison talked about StarOffice 3.x... you'd better to ignore it
since version 4 is completely different.
>looking for word processor (MS-Word clone) and spreadsheet (MS-Excel
AFAIK, StarOffice is as near clone to new M$ office as possible, althought
I'm bad to judge since I have never seen the (new) M$ office.
Overall, the applications in StarOffice (4.0) are very tightly intergrated.
On low memory machine (like 24MB) it will take very long time to start
StarOffice, but when it is running it is reasonably fast. I am actually
beginning to think that StarOffice is better web browser than netscape
since netscape's screen display is so slow.
StarOffice looks and works exactly like any new windoze program, which
means that it might not integrate perfectly with your linux environment
(eg. staroffice generates its own popup windows which don't use X window
manager).
StarOffice 4.0sp3 is also pretty stable. It crashed once, but that's not
bad. WordPerfect 7 seems to be much buggier.
I haven't yet tried the newest staroffice which is version 5 (afaik).
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