[ale] Google to distribut StarOffice for free

[Bruce]

What it might do, is make OpenOffice.Org formats more
prevalent. Why would a home user buy MS Office at $140
or so for a student version, if they can do Star
Office for free as part of the Google Pack.

I know OOo is free (and from what I'm reading here -
so is Star Office) - but I think the average user
might be more apt to install Star Office as part of
Google pack than go search out OOo and install it.

My kids all use OOo, but I'm getting tired of having
to save and translate docs to make sure we e-mail them
in MS formats. My wife uses Word Perfect - so maybe
the Star Office translator for Word Perfect might be a
good thing.

--- Brian Stanaland <brian.stanaland at gmail.com> wrote:

> If I recall correctly, Star Office for Solaris and
> Sun Java Desktop (Sun's
> Linux) are a free download from Sun.  It's also a
> free download for Solaris
> Express Community Edition which is what I'm running
> on my SunBlade 150 at
> the office.  As far as differences go, Star Office
> has more filters for
> proprietary formats than OpenOffice.org does.  I
> believe there is a
> difference in the included database but since I
> don't use it I can't say for
> sure.
> 
> Brian



       
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