xutuan Zhang wrote:

> I am new to OpenOffice.org. Can anyone tell me what is
> the differences between OpenOffice and StarOffice?

They are similar, but not quite the same.

OpenOffice.org is an open source program, with a community of volunteers 
behind it. StarOffice is a propietary program, owned by Sun Microsystems. 
StarOffice uses the OpenOffice.org codebase, so the programs behave almost 
the same, and have almost the same features. StarOffice includes some 
fonts and filters that are not found in OOo. I know of one filter (for 
Word Perfect files) which is different between the two. StarOffice also 
comes with a database called "Adabas" which OOo doesn't have.

> Some of OpenOffice's manual is for StarOffice.

Which one?

I am the lead of the user guide project (http://oooauthors.org) and our 
work is done 100% with OpenOffice.org.

Have you thought about volunteering?

Cheers,
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