George writes: > Contrary to rumors, Staroffice 6.0 is free to schools after you >purchase one copy for $50 and send in a licensing form. I've been using >Staroffice for about 18 months now and switched to 6.0 about 6 weeks ago >and have to say it is a greatly improved product. It will open and save >in the Microsoft Office format so there really aren't any compatibility >issues . I'm going to put it on machines that do not have Office on them >yet, faculty and student.
Sad news... ---------------- STAROFFICE NOT FORTHCOMING FOR MAC Contrary to recent news reports, Sun Microsystems and Apple Computer are not developing a version of StarOffice for the Mac, according to an official from Sun. Two open-source developers have produced an alpha version of OpenOffice for Mac; StarOffice is based on the OpenOffice suite, developed by OpenOffice.org. At a news conference Monday, the official from Sun and the two developers said that there have been talks between Sun and Apple, but there are no plans to move forward with such a project. The developers said it would take them another one to three years to finish work on their "Apple ready" version of OpenOffice, one with all of the features and user interface of other Apple applications. InfoWorld, 30 July 2002 http://www.idg.net/ic_899509_1794_9-10000.html ------------------ Steve Scarbrough, Technology Coordinator Storm Lake Community School District 419 Lake Avenue Storm Lake, IA 50588 712.732.8100 fax:8101 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.storm-lake.k12.ia.us/~sscarbrough/ --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/tech-cord@aea5.k12.ia.us/ ---------------------------------------------------------
