Software Selection Tips: StarOffice Vs. OpenOffice
Submitted by srlinuxx on Fri, 11/21/2008 - 07:40.
Now that Sun has released StarOffice 9, it's a good time to answer an important question: What, exactly, is the difference between OpenOffice.org and StarOffice?
Some users might ask a somewhat different question: Are there any differences between OpenOffice.org and StarOffice, except for the fact that the former is free and the latter is not?
Even Sun has a hard time getting past this issue, judging from its own attempts to compare the relative merits of StarOffice and OpenOffice.org. (It doesn't help that links to OpenOffice.org are much easier to find on Sun's software Web site than links to StarOffice!)
Nevertheless, there are some real distinctions between the two products, even if those differences are far more relevant to enterprise users than to those in the SMB market.
First, however, it might help to explain the exact relationship between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org:
620kB Corel Office written in Java gets my vote ? Extensions ?
Sun invented Java in 1989. Since then many webpages benefited, and Ajax made website easier to build because Java is similar to C++ language(reusable files are shared).
Biber at Corel had a Corel Office suite written in Java as a demo, and its only 620 kilobytes long. Plus Java, of course, to fit on a 1.44 mB floppy. I used it with WinMe, years ago.
Now with Ajax, you can put corel Office on the net.
You can also extend Corel Office to Corel draw and publish webpages on ajax?
How does it sound compared to Star Office9 based on Open Office3.0? And Corel Office with many newer Java library of reusable files? Which one would you have for cloud computing on netphones?
More info on Corel Office is still on google search engine. But the future of Corel type of office suites based on newer Java library will be interesting to compete with Ulteo cloud computing? Email vs. form letters of fancy fonts(WordPerfect was obsoleted by email)?
The problem with Linux reusable files is that they are not developed for webpage publications? Examine kernels, toolkits and PHP scripts and you do not have netbeans(Tango icons Beranger is working on at Novel?)? The very acute reason that Ajax raced ahead of Linux LAMPS stack. LAMPS is S for soap(dotnet packet format).
Tango project must have gtk+ toolkit(Corel Draw) for icons used on webpages.
Next generation office suite will be based on email website, and middleware(DOM) to do data mining and finish any task by email publishing. Is Corel Office for email? Or should Corel office drop into email packet format work space?