Staroffice, I speculate, was developed to cut into the revenue stream of
their competitor, Microsoft. Since a small revenue stream is being produced
by Staroffice, they made a business decision of developing a product for the
market that would really hurt Microsoft. Staroffice is also available for
their own Sun operating system and also for Linux. Another reason to
consider Linux where web access and basic business operations are the main
uses in school labs. Complete systems for less than $500.
Another interesting development. Dell has decided to get into the PDA
market. They surprised me by picking Windows CE as the operating system.
The other two major players in the market are HP with Jornada (which is to
be discontinued) and Compaq. Both of their machines are around $500. Dell
says theirs will be less than $300. (probably $299)
George
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Scarbrough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 9:18 PM
Subject: [tech-cord] Star Office (was:Microsoft)
> 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
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>
> Steve Scarbrough, Technology Coordinator
> Storm Lake Community School District
> 419 Lake Avenue
> Storm Lake, IA 50588
> 712.732.8100 fax:8101
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