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.

Comments

Open Office

[jdun]

It's free and came from the same code as StarOffice.

http://www.openoffice.org/

Enjoy

Why not Open Office?

[digitect]

Seriously, can somebody please tell me why anybody would by StarOffice when it's based on OpenOffice, which is free?

what's the point?

[prizzznecious]

OpenOffice.org 1.0 released sooner, has comparable features and is completely free. It's the same code base, anyway. So why would anyone want Star Office? Note that this isn't meant as a troll--I think it's a legitimate question.