
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.
>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 >->7 active developers, and no full time workers (the last I >checked).
Koffice is an office package. So is OpenOffice. I'm comparing those two.
I dont need MS compability(fileformats) but I need database access and a working scripting language.