On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Paul Kraus wrote: > Is openoffice and staroffice the same thing?
No it's not. OpenOffice is an opensource version of StarOffice, even though I believe that StarOffice is opensource too. Once apon a time StarOffice (Sun Miscrosystems I believe) released their code to developers, who then in turn created (and are still developing) OpenOffice (OpenOffice.org to be correct ... patent issues). To sum it up in a nutshell, there are many differing issuse of the 2 programs. When I once used StarOffice, it contained MANY different interfaces, like E-mail, a Web brower and so on, which OpenOffice.org does not. StarOffice also tried to intergrate into the KDE environmant I gathered, however in my opinion when I tried it it failed. Both programs share though the standard Office applications, mostly compared to Word, Excel, Powerpoint and so on. IMHO OpenOffice.org is a better program as it cuts down on unneccesary extras. Just my 5 cents ;-) Greetings Ralph
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