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[ale] Star vs Open Office
- Subject: [ale] Star vs Open Office
- From: mhirsch at nubridges.com (Michael D. Hirsch)
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:58:24 -0400
On Friday 18 July 2003 02:19 pm, H. Bieber wrote:
> What is the advantage of running Star Office over Open Office? Don't
> worry about the fact that Star Office costs $$. I am just looking for
> software based reasons.
I think the major difference is that StarOffice has additional codecs,
clipart, and templates. It you want to read WordPerfect files, for
example, I think you need SO.
OO will tend to be more cutting edge, so any speed improvements, for
example, will show up in OO, first.
Michael
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