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SUN aquired the German StarOffice program manufacturers Co. last year.
But if you are also used to the German Mercs, VW's and BMW's on one site
and the Aussie Trabant's(former East Germany's "VolksWagen") on the other site,
eg and my grandma's coffee perculator ran faster/was more advanced/and did
also got on my nerves too, than you will easy relate to MSOffice on the one site
and Star office on the other site.
Even the miniature Office like MSWorks-suite looks a Porsche/Jaquar
compared to the undressed ugly duck and for speed Downloader alike program among
the Office programs. Eg its aimed at "student's budgets" only(i.e. JAVA quality).
See last Sept, 1999 mail below.
Regards,
Ton Maas
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Correcting your typo:
StarOffice is NOT the same as the Microsoft Office-suite.
It doesn't even qualify as a (cripled) standard office-suite let alone an Office-clone.
Its so very basic.
(the Microsoft Works-suite is even a penthouse compared to the basement
program that StarOffice is).
For starters StarOffice is one(1) application only (StarOffice).
Within the StarOffice-application you can work with templates (eg in a task like
manner), known in Windows and familiar from Windows compatible programs
(1x right-click and click "New" and a list of possible new files is presented and
all options (Folder, Textdocument, Shortcut, Briefcase and others) are all the
<official> Windows registred 'templates').
Clicking File|New will present the StarOffice templates (in a "task like" manner)
like starting out with a new text document or a new spreadsheet etc. and all of
these can than be saved in the DBF-dBase, TXT-NotePad or RTF or Word97
or Excel97 formats).
The closest it gets to is the also multi-functional Microsoft Office's Word-application.
Any other <in a standard office suite> available application is plain missing, eg
also especialy all the other applications, extra's and luxuries that come with
the Microsoft Office suite are not included.
Like mentioned before, there are some nice programs entering the markets, eg
that originate from Germany, India & Israel (and several other countries).
The StarOffice program is one of them, was developed in Germany and was
also freely distributed to replace the former <but oh so very simple> DOS-programs
(with the same type of "activities/names") by a Windows compatible-program.
Further development of the program was haulted for financial reasons (and in the
meantime Corel or Sun came into the picture, eg the SO-company + brandname
+ source/copyrights were taken over)
http://www.staroffice.de
http://www.stardivision.de
Regards,
Ton Maas
ms-irb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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note the new address change. Also for my Homepage
http://home.planet.nl/~anthmaas
----- Original Message -----
From: Michel Guibert <mguibert@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: donderdag 9 september 1999 5:08
Subject: Staroffice
> http://www.sun.com/staroffice/
> Apparently it`s the same as the office suite of microsoft and free for home
> use
> Does somebody use it ??????????
>
----- Original Message -----
From: "G. G." <GiancarloGaydou@xxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: vrijdag 24 maart 2000 11:08
Subject: Re: Excel (OT)
> Hi, if I'm not wrong SUN has a suite very much like the MSOffice and they
> are giving it for free, anybody in this list knows some more?
>
> Good trading
> G.G.
>
> ug@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Andy writes:
> >
> > > Unfortunately you're only purchasing the right to use the software,
> > > in the same way that purchasing a movie ticket doesn't make the
> > > movie yours to do what you want with it. I believe Microsoft (and
> > > other software manufacturers) are likely to be heading down this
> > > path with a lot of their software.
> >
> > This is the norm now; it's not some new thing M$ has come up with.
>
> --
> --End--
>
> Knowledge is bad, it gives you an idea of how much you don't know. ;-)
>
>
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