StarOffice 6.0

Lawrence Teo writes "News.com, Infoworld.com, and eWeek are all reporting that Sun's StarOffice 6.0, which will be released on May 21, will cost a measly $75.95. That's less than a quarter the cost of Microsoft Office. Details are also available at Sun's own StarOffice 6.0 website." Sun's press release mentions the new features, although if you're familiar with openoffice.org, you've got a pretty good idea of what StarOffice has to offer. An anonymous reader also points out that Sun has effectively one-upped Microsoft's various schemes to get its software into schools by making an unlimited donation of StarOffice to China's Ministry of Education.

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Anybody mind tleling me. . . .

[Com2Kid]

Why the f*ck we are still dealing with the commies?

Seriously, bad enough that we allow companies to import shit from commie countries, but why in the hell are we GIVING CRUD to them?

Figure the government would have passed a law looong ago forbidding it.

Betcha China would have had a much harder time doing any sort of research if they had to had have built all of their own tools just as we initially did. . . .

their [stupid [moronic]] editors

[nslu]

their [stupid [moronic]] editors are doing it [again [and again [and again]]].

"It was not only the cost savings and multiplatform support that raised our interest in [the] StarOffice 6.0 [software], it was also the direction Sun is taking in adopting XML as the default file format," said Michel Barthelemy, chief technology officer for Auchan Groupe, a $23 billion grocer and retailer based in France. "With [the] StarOffice [software], we estimate that we will have significant savings compared to deploying other similar office suites. And the default XML file format gives us the choice of which vendor to use for our future office productivity and back office needs."

In a related topic...

[cide1]

The monetary value of this gift was estimated to be 10,000,000,000 jihadies, the jihadai is the al qaeda's main currency. The value in dollars was about $1.39 u.s. It is believed that the one al qaeda computer was taken away along with osama bin ladens's fax machine. A local resident was quoted as saying "Babba gook, zin, zin, wallop", which translates to "How do you fit a whole office in that small metal box". Multiple phone calls to inside sources, where not returned, because in addition to no computers, there are no phones. Coming up next, should the new parking lot in the middle east have white or yellow stripes.

WSJ Mossberg pans it

[lseltzer]

The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg pans StarOffice 6.0 in tomorrow's issue. (Paid subscription required.)

He says the UI is badly designed, the MSOffice importing is badly flawed, it resorts to heavy techie jargon too often, and it's just plain buggy.

Re:Crescent Office!

[rovingeyes]

Jihad is WAR/FIGHT. Well you may open a dictionary and say hey this is the right meaning. But believe me the meaning gets distorted over the time. FUCK those bastards!

Re:Crescent Office!

[rjamestaylor]

Good grief, give it a rest. We already see that the backward muslim countries are war-like religious zealots. Stop pretending these 9th Century throwbacks are civilized as the West. It's just NOT TRUE.

Besides, Islam is a bastard religion -- one without a legitimate Father, but rather invented out of Judaic-Christian traditions. Islam has done ZIP to bring peace to any part of the world it has reached. Zip. At least in the West you can find Christian conscientious objectors.