Subject: Re: differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Mar 03 2002 - 21:45:16 AKST
I've been using StarOffice 6.0 beta for a while now, and tried out
openoffice 641 the other day, but overall I like staroffice a bit
better. OpenOffice seemed a bit quirky with some things.. I probably
will stick with StarOffice beta for a while, and maybe pick up the pay
version when 6.1 or 7.0 comes around.. :)
Has anyone played with HancomOffice much? I tried their 2.0 demo a bit
back, but it seemed to be a little rough and crashy, but it looks like
it has very good potential. It's like $50 for the standard and $100 for
the pro version. It's made by an asian company (korean, i believe) and
it has a pretty big following in asia, so i'm hoping to see some big
improvements with it in the future...
Justin
James Zuelow wrote:
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> On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Stanley Long wrote:
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>>Looks to me like OpenOffice is maybe a MORE desirable product that the
>>original StarOffice ??
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>>Breaking it down into individual units could be better, XML is better,
>>and the "componentization" might lead to inter-operability with
>>different spreadsheet/graphic modules.
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>>Only the loss of "certain file filters" might be bad.
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> I believe StarOffice 6.0 will have better MS import/export (especially
> export) filters - probably why Sun isn't going to give it away.
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> OpenOffice.org build 641 can open a lot of MS Word 97/2000/XP automated
> forms (the ones with the tab fields and locked content), but you can't
> unlock the form, edit the fields, and save it back to MS format. You have
> to use the OpenOffice format - which isn't bad unless you have to cater to
> MS Office users that use a lot of locked forms with calculated fields.
> (The field formatting also tends to go by the wayside.)
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> That's the only place I've been frustrated with OpenOffice.org aside from
> PowerPoint hyperlinks not working (not a feature I use a lot, so...). I
> had the 6.0 beta but ditched it for OpenOffice.org, and that's where I'll
> stay for the foreseeable future.
>
> Cheers,
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> James
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