Linked by William Ku on Sun 16th Jun 2002 18:45 UTC
You may have heard of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice which is being offered as a viable and cheaper alternative to Microsoft Office. Openoffice.org is the open source (or, free indefinitely) cousin of StarOffice. Staroffice used to be free as in you can freely download and install in as many computers as you like but Sun Microsystems has recently decided to charge for Staroffice. However, please do not fret as Openoffice.org will always be free and we are going to show you in this article how and why Openoffice.org instead of MS Office and StarOffice is for you.
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Notice how OpenOffice.org does not include a database. This is because Sun have licensed code from Adabas for the database in StarOffice, and this code couldn't be used for OpenOffice.org. There is a solution: you can link OpenOffice.org to any ODBC compliant database (e.g. MySQL), and it will be used as the back-end for an MS Access-like database GUI. Instructions for the GNU/Linux version of OpenOffice can be found at http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid... .