"It's a paradigm shift," said Sun's executive VP of software Rich Green. "It brings together office productivity, networking and search into one offering."
"Users will benefit from access to a free, full-featured office suite for the desktop," Google said in a statement. "And we've also always believed that users should have choice in their online and PC experience."
http://www.dailytech.com/Google+Distribute...article8485.htm
Sun StarOffice 8 is a full-fledged, commercial office productivity suite that is roughly on par with Microsoft Office 2000 (though it lacks a client email and personal information management solution like Outlook).
In 2000 Sun released StarOffice's source code, which became the foundation of OpenOffice.org, the free, open source, multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project.
The primary difference between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org being that StarOffice includes some proprietary components like clip-art graphics, fonts, templates and tools for Microsoft Office migration.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/08/g...staroffice.html
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"OxygenOffice Professional (was: OpenOffice.org Premium) is an enhanced version of OpenOffice.org [that] contains more extras like templates, cliparts, samples, fonts and VBA support."
"More than 3,200 graphics are included, both clip art and photos. These pictures are integrated into the gallery and can easily be placed into any OxygenOffice document. Several templates and sample documents are included, as well as over 90 fonts."
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/08/g...staroffice.html
From sun.com
Q:
What are the differences between StarOffice 8 software and the OpenOffice.org 2.0?
A:
StarOffice 8 software is a commercial product built on OpenOffice.org’s open source code to provide the best value, multi-platform Microsoft compatible office suite aimed at organizations and consumers. OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the leading open-source project aimed at users of free software, independent developers and the open source community. StarOffice includes licensed-in, third-party technology such as:
- Spellchecker and thesaurus
- Mail Merge Wizard does not have the ability to send mail merge documents as emails.
- Select fonts including Windows metrically equivalent fonts and Asian language fonts
- Select filters, including Asian word processor filters
- Integration of additional templates and extensive clipart gallery
- Migration Tools and Macro Migration Wizard. The converted macros does not run in OpenOffice.org
- Sun Java System Configuration Manager for Solaris, Linux and Windows