[Olug-list] Fwd: Re: StarOffice 6.0

[Remco B. Brink]

Tor Erik Neuberg <ten@oslo.online.no> writes:

> Er det meg eller får dere andre litt bakoversveis av dette svaret??

As found on the OpenOffice FAQ page:
  ( http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/mostfaqs.html#7a )

The differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org can be accounted
for in two ways: 

A. Differences between StarOffice 5.2 and the future of StarOffice

 The source code has undergone some significant changes since 5.2 was
 released. Some of these changes are: 

 - Removal of integrated desktop 
 - Componentization of word processing, spreadsheet and graphic
   applications modules 
 - Removal of email and calendar and the schedule server 
 - Removal of the browser 
 - Move to XML-file formats 
 - Improved Microsoft filters 
 - CJK support (CJK refers to Asian languages: C=Chinese, simple and
   traditional, J= Japanese, K= Korean)

These are all changes that were decided upon by Sun Microsystems
before the source code was released to the community.

B. Differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org

 The source code available at OpenOffice.org does not consist of all of
 the StarOffice code. Usually, the reason for this is that Sun pays to
 license third-party code to include in StarOffice that which it does
 not have permission to make available in OpenOffice.org. Those things
 which are or will be present in StarOffice but are not available on
 OpenOffice.org include: 

 - Certain fonts (including, especially, Asian language fonts) 
 - The database component (Adabas D) 
 - Some templates 
 - Extensive Clip Art Gallery 
 - Some sorting functionality (Asian versions) 
 - Certain file filters


> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
>
> Subject: Re: StarOffice 6.0
> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 14:22:41 +0200
> From: "Kjetil Skogheim" <Kjetil.Skogheim@pcworld.no>
> To: Tor Erik Neuberg <ten@oslo.online.no>
>
> Forskjellen mellom StarOffice og OpenOffice er at StarOffice leveres med
> databaseverktøyet Adabas og brukerstøtte for bedrifter, mens OpenOffice
> egentlig ikke leveres med noe som helst.
>
>
>                     Tor Erik
>                     Neuberg              To:     kjetil.skogheim@pcworld.no
>                     <ten@oslo.onli       cc:
>                     ne.no>               Subject:     StarOffice 6.0
>
>                     22.08.2002
>                     14:25
>
> Hei
>
> Savner litt info on forskjellen mellom StarOffice 6.0 og OpenOffice.org 1.0
> Mener selv at OOo burde vært nevnt i en test av StarOffice 6.0 :)
> Ellers en OK test. (Sjekk ut Office testen i LinuxFormat #30)
>
> ps. kjører selv OOo både på XP og SuSE Linux.
>
> Tor Erik Neuberg

-rbb

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