Star Review of Hancom Office 2.01 Standard for Linux
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 22nd Apr 2002 17:28 UTC
Features, Office Hancom Office 2.01 is the latest version from the Korean company Hancom Linux, released only a few days ago. The company used to offer a Windows version of their product, but they have since completely focused on the Linux platform, even though their product is pretty portable as it is based almost solely in the Qt 3 tooklkit. In latest news, Hancom has canned their Professional version of their office suite (contained more applications in assosiation with TheKompany), and they now going with the Standard version, which is the version we review today. Update: From the Hancom press release: "200 Million Arabic Speakers Finally Have an Affordable, High-Quality Alternative to Microsoft - And Save 90% in the Process."
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Just a few little mistakes :)
by Yama on Tue 23rd Apr 2002 00:33 UTC

The suite will have a strong compeition with OpenOffice 6 (to be released next month), but I believe that Hancom will have a winner if they manage to bring the product is a more "clean" state before the OpenOffice folks do.

Firstly, it's called "OpenOffice.org". The name "OpenOffice" (without the ".org" on the end) is owned by somebody else. Secondly, OpenOffice.org is approaching 1.0, not 6.0. I think you're confusing it with Sun's StarOffice suite, which is based almost entirely on OpenOffice.org code (kind of like how Netscape is now based on Mozilla). OpenOffice.org is free software (GPL), while StarOffice is proprietary and will cost some money.

Otherwise the review was quite good ;)