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New OpenOffice.org-Based Office Suite

Posted by timothy on from the unfortunate-name dept.

Voidhobo writes: "SOT, a Linux-distributor from the home-country of Linux, is offering SOT Office, a free productivity suite partly based on OpenOffice, for Linux and Windows. According to SOT, it is the only office application you will ever need, as it is fully compatible with MS Office and StarOffice." OpenOffice is great, so I hope their claims have merit.

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  1. Check the screenshots by Morthaur · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The screenshots show an application that's identical to OpenOffice, save only the name, and the colours used in the instaler. Makes you wonder, what's the point?!

    Why does this even merit a /. story; it's just a niche-market re-branding of a free software product. Stick to OpenOffice, it already rocks.

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  2. Re:WordPerfect by mstyne · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It would seem that it doesn't handle .wpd. However, it looks like you can open Microsoft Word files going back as far as Office 95. It also handles Star Office's Star Writer format. I'm going to look into both this and the original Open Office, as my Star Office 6.0 Beta is slated to expire in June.

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  3. Target: Finnish Goverment by villoks · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well,

    As far as I know, their primary target is the Finnish audience. They have added features like Finnish spelling and the package has also Finnish menus etc.

    This actually makes sense, many Finnish government agencis are currently considering switching to linux and the Finnish office software is something which is really requited. The Finnish Custon uses already Open Office btw.

    Ville

  4. Every worker his own suite! by YeeHaW_Jelte · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I disagree. We have two standards for storing office-like information: the current, MS-office doc, xls and ppt, and more importantly, the upcoming, most likely an XML-variant. As long as all these office-suites comply to both the current and the upcoming standard, the only reason not to want so much different suites is fragmentation of the sparse resource of open sources programmers, because to make a good open source office suite, you need a whole lot of voluntary programming hours.

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  5. i can put up a mirror... by gimpboy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    if someone can send me the files. email me if you have the binaries, and i'll put up a mirror to relieve the load on their ftp servers.

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