oh my ... The thawt's just occured that by the "beta program closing" they may be meaning that we will no longer be able to download the beastie after the pumpkin moment - and *not* that it'll become an unusable hdd space-muncher-upper after said tictoc occurs. ahh, the joys of prose inna unglush. silly me. sorry for any fuss caused. cheers pre PS: your comparisons will be interesting.
================================== On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 17:09:49 +1300 Chris Hellyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Downloaded and installed it yesterday on a machine, didn't see anything > about expiry dates, although I thought I was going to expire waiting for it > to start... Bit of a pig ay what.. Must do some timing comparisons on the > same machine, SO 5.2 on my home machine is quite quick (not as fast as > MS-Office 95 under win98 though..) > > Anyway, I'm going to install �eta 6 here tonight, I'll have a dig and report > back if it is going to expire... > > Cheers, Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter Elliott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'clug'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 3:42 AM > Subject: Re: Staroffice beta 6 > > > > and by the way - doesn't the star office 6 beta run out (as in expire) at > the end of this year? > > at least this'd been the impression i'd gotten. > > > > and a quick shoofty reveals: > > "If you want to get a hold of the beta for StarOffice 6.0, you will need > to do it soon: the beta program closes on the last day of the year. No word > on the exact date of release for StarOffice 6.0, though Sun is expecting it > to ship in early 2002." > > > > that from: > > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/3975/1/ > > > > as found via linuxtoday. > > > > just thawt etc..... > > cheers > > pre > >
