OpenOffice vs. StarOffice

[Michael F. March]

From the FAQ:
  1.. What are the differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org?
  2.. The differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org can be accounted
for in two ways:
  3.. A. Differences between StarOffice 5.2 and the future of StarOffice
    a.. The source code has undergone some significant changes since 5.2 was
released. Some of these changes are:
      a.. Removal of integrated desktop
      b.. Componentization of word processing, spreadsheet and graphic
applications modules
      c.. Removal of email and calendar and the schedule server
      d.. Removal of the browser
      e.. Move to XML-file formats
      f.. Improved Microsoft filters
      g.. CJK support (CJK refers to Asian languages: C=Chinese, simple and
traditional, J= Japanese, K= Korean)
  These are all changes that were decided upon by Sun Microsystems before
the source code was released to the community.



  B. Differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org

    a.. The source code available at OpenOffice.org does not consist of all
of the StarOffice code. Usually, the reason for this is that Sun pays to
license third party code to include in StarOffice that which it does not
have permission to make available in OpenOffice.org. Those things which are
or will be present in StarOffice but are not available on OpenOffice.org
include:
      a.. Spell checking
      b.. Certain fonts (including, especially, Asian language fonts)
      c.. Help
      d.. The database component (Adabas D)
      e.. Templates
      f.. Extensive Clip Art Gallery
      g.. Some sorting functionality (Asian versions)
      h.. Certain file filters
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Fleming" <pfleming@infomagic.net>
To: "PLUG" <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: OpenOffice vs. StarOffice


> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Rick Rosinski wrote:
>
> > Before I go and download OpenOffice, is it any better than StarOffice
5.2?
> > What are the benefits, if any, over StarOffice?
> >
> >
> It is smaller and doesn't take over the desk top like StarOffice... it is
> still in development though and is not as stable yet.
> I have downloaded version 628 (I think) and as of yet have not installed
> to test out the features. Using 625 (on Win- hey it's what I was running
> at the time) it seemed prone to crashing. On the RH box it ran pretty
> well.
>
> Patrick