Sun StarOffice 7
from: Sun Microsystems
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Product Description:
StarOffice 7 Office Suite is the world's leading office productivity suite on Linux and the Solaris OS, and the leading alternative office suite on Windows. It offers word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database capabilities. Its familiar interface enables quick productivity and results for the business user, and elegant output for the consumer.
StarOffice 7 Office Suite is the world's leading office productivity suite on Linux and the Solaris OS, and the leading alternative office suite on Windows. It offers word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database capabilities. Its familiar interface enables quick productivity and results for the business user, and elegant output for the consumer.
Features:
- Runs on multiple operating systems, including Solaris OS, MS Windows, and Linux
- Simple, easy-to-use interface; contains full-featured applications
- Interoperable with many third-party formats like PDF and XML
- Easy export to PDF and Flash; increased MS Office compatibility; improved help and documentation
- Accessibility support for people with disabilities
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- Satisfactory performance
Version 7 is about 90+% compatible with MS Office.For the price it is a good value.
Rating: 
- About memory hogging accusations-not really
Mr./Ms. BM_NINADAsaid that StarOffice hoggs memory.
I am using OpenOffice 2.0.
I am looking at my consumption at this very momemnt having one machine running MS Word the other OpenOffice .
OpenOffice uses 60Meg, the MS Word uses 30Meg. In big scheme of things it is insignificant difference. I have 1G of memory so we talking about difference between one using 3 and the other 6 percent.
Rating: 
- One difference of note between OO and StarOffice
I suspect there are other minor differences not mentioned here or below, but I wanted to mention one difference for Japanese Speakers using OO or StarOffice.
The popular office package from Just Systems, in particular the word processing package "Ichitaro," remains a standard in Japan.In particular many official documents are drafted and circulated in this format.(The Courts and certain national and regional bureacratic offices come to mind.)
Unfortunately, there is ... Read More
Rating: - StarOffice Rocks!
StarOffice 7 is just as good as Microsoft Office, for a fraction of the cost.I am well pleased with the product.
Rating: - A fan of open-source but still ...
I went through the reviews posted here and it's a like a mountain of praise to a sea of tears! Anyways, as a brief 'bout myself: I love to use open-source products, know quite a bit about software and applications, etc.
There's ONE CRITICAL aspect of Star Office/Open Office which has caused me to DUMP the software: Usage of available memory. I have verified in 3 machines running Pentium server-racks, notebook, Centrino and all having at least 256 Mb/512 Mb ofRAM this productis definitely ... Read More
- Satisfactory performanceVersion 7 is about 90+% compatible with MS Office.For the price it is a good value.
- About memory hogging accusations-not reallyMr./Ms. BM_NINADAsaid that StarOffice hoggs memory.
I am using OpenOffice 2.0.
I am looking at my consumption at this very momemnt having one machine running MS Word the other OpenOffice .
OpenOffice uses 60Meg, the MS Word uses 30Meg. In big scheme of things it is insignificant difference. I have 1G of memory so we talking about difference between one using 3 and the other 6 percent.
- One difference of note between OO and StarOfficeI suspect there are other minor differences not mentioned here or below, but I wanted to mention one difference for Japanese Speakers using OO or StarOffice.
The popular office package from Just Systems, in particular the word processing package "Ichitaro," remains a standard in Japan.In particular many official documents are drafted and circulated in this format.(The Courts and certain national and regional bureacratic offices come to mind.)
Unfortunately, there is ... Read More
- StarOffice Rocks!StarOffice 7 is just as good as Microsoft Office, for a fraction of the cost.I am well pleased with the product.
- A fan of open-source but still ...I went through the reviews posted here and it's a like a mountain of praise to a sea of tears! Anyways, as a brief 'bout myself: I love to use open-source products, know quite a bit about software and applications, etc.
There's ONE CRITICAL aspect of Star Office/Open Office which has caused me to DUMP the software: Usage of available memory. I have verified in 3 machines running Pentium server-racks, notebook, Centrino and all having at least 256 Mb/512 Mb ofRAM this productis definitely ... Read More
