RE: [cobalt-users] What's this?

["Peter Masloch" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruce, there also is a third version based on the same
code: SOT Office. It actualy is the same then Open Office.
http://www.sot.com
It is for Linux and Windows.


>Peter Masloch wrote:
>> 
>> Star Office is not made by SUN. It was original
>> from a company in germany and is part of Red Hat
>> and other Linux dist. since a couple of years.
>
>Star Office is an office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, 
>presentation software, drawing package) compatible with 
>Microsoft Office and others. 
>The entire codebase was acquired from a German company by Sun 
>a few years ago.  The codebase was subsequently open sourced 
>IAW the GNU Public License.  There now exists two versions of 
>the original StarOffice - a commercial version, developed by 
>Sun, named StarOffice, and a similar version with fewer 
>features that is free, developed by Sun and the open source 
>community, named OpenOffice.
>
>There is detailed information at http://www.openoffice.org/ 
>about the differences between the two; I won't try and repeat 
>that info here.
>
>Sun continues to support and partially fund the development of 
>OpenOffice, while simultaneously making support and training 
>available to purchasers of StarOffice.  The two products share 
>a similar codebase; StarOffice has enhancements not available 
>in the normal OpenOffice distribution.
>
>StarOffice is bundled in some Linux distributions, but usually 
>the "premium" versions of the distro that require purchase.
>
>
>--
>Bruce Timberlake
>Sun Cobalt Technology Engineer
>Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>
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