Software Selection Tips: StarOffice Vs. OpenOffice
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:
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