Star Openoffice.org 1.0 Review - Review your Options
Linked by William Ku on Sun 16th Jun 2002 18:45 UTC
Features, Office 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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So you are comparing with KOffice?
by rajan r on Mon 17th Jun 2002 08:20 UTC

I find OO great. Featurefull and stable. Which is more
I can say about KOffice and Gnome-Office(Abiword/Gnumeric).
Thanks to all the OpenOffice.org folks.

Wow, thanks a lot for comparing a product that was developed for a loong time (albeit under wraps at Star Division) and have a lot of full time workers on it, with a project with 5-7 active developers, and no full time workers (the last I checked). KOffice have come a long way considering the amount of developers behind it, and when I'm just writing something, and don't need things like hypenation and footnotes, which is rare anyway, and don't need to save in readable Office formats, I use KOffice. I would rate it's overall UI much more easier to use than OOo, 1.2 beta 1 as stable as OOo 1.0.