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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On my Windows desktop machine I have uninstalled StarOffice 5.2 and am using the OpenOffice.org software. I am equally happy with Mozilla 1.0 BTW and Netscape 6.2 is gone, so is Opera 6. Unfortunately, I have needed to retain my copy of WordPerfect Suite 2002 to maintain compatibility with company documents. Anyhow, I do not have a single complaint. I will probably go forth and install OpenOffice.org software on user's desktops to give them the ability to more easily work with many documents sent them and to ease the transition from Windows/WordPerfect to Linux/OpenOffice.org. I should be able to use WordPerfect Suite to do mass conversions to the .doc and .xls format, however I really wish .wpd and .wb3 were able to be opened by the OpenOffice.org software. Otherwise, I wish a WordPerfect Suite 2002 license could legally substitute for a WordPerfect Suite 9 for Linux license.