Granted StarOffice 5.2 and OpenOffice are very different beasts as described, but StarOffice6.0 and OpenOffice are all but identical. I have them both loaded, and the only difference I can detect between them is the splash screen when they open.
derek On Friday 25 January 2002 14:35, Ralph Slooten wrote: > 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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