StarOffice 7, GNOME-Office 1.0 Released

An anonymous reader writes "Abiword 2.0 has been released. Finally the Linux desktop has a quality word processor that is faster to load than OpenOffice.org and includes proper footnotes. It also no longer uses its own font directory. At the same time Enchant 1.0.0 has been released, a cross-platform abstract layer to spellchecking. Enchant has been proposed to be a Freedesktop.org standard." That's not the only news, though: Abiword 2.0 is part of the just-released GNOME-Office 1.0, which, as riggwelter writes "coordinates GNOME2 versions of AbiWord, Gnumeric, and GNOME-DB, the database interface." Sun's StarOffice has just reached version 7, as well: read on below for some more information on that, including a first-look review.

Jim Hall writes "I just noticed that Sun Microsystems has released StarOffice 7. I've been using the StarOffice betas for a while now, so I have been eagerly awaiting this release! StarOffice is, of course, based on the ever-popular OpenOffice.org. StarOffice 7 software adds functionality to enable export to PDF, and to the Macromedia Flash format. It also introduces the new StarOffice Configuration Manager, the StarOffice Software Development Kit, a macro recorder, and support for assistive technologies, as well as for complex text layouts. Multi-platform running on Linux, Solaris OS and Windows. Only US$79.95 to buy your copy for home (free for edu, plus cost of media+shipping.) Now is a great time to show this to your boss and pitch that 'MS Office to StarOffice' conversion project."

An anonymous reader writes "NewsForge has a 'drive-by' 'quick-peek' look at the new StarOffice up on their site."

One suggestion on office software for the Free Software desktop: Casually re-start a friend or co-worker's Windows computer with Knoppix and show them you can open their Word files with OpenOffice.org. Mention their machine is moderately safe from Word-borne viruses until they reboot into Windows.

Comments

So...

[Anonymous Coward]

Was GNOME-Office 1.0 just released? Or was GNOME-Office 2.0 released?
Or were they both released simeoultaneously in a mad late night programming section?

I can deal with the spellings, errors, and (occasionally) the blatant bias, but could we at least get the headlines to match the articles?

Got it wrong!

[linuxkrn]

StarOffice is, of course, based on the ever-popular OpenOffice.org.

Nope, OpenOffice.org was created from the BASE of StarOffice. They might have ment based on the ever-popular Microsoft Office...but I digress.

2.0 or 1.0?

[chill]

The title says "GNOME-Office 2.0" but the rest of the post references "GNOME-Office 1.0". Which is it?

Oops

[ilctoh]

StarOffice is, of course, based on the ever-popular OpenOffice.org Sorry, but I think you have it backwards. OO.o is based on Star Office, not vice-versa.

It

[tigre222]

"...combines state-of-the-art usability, powerful Word Processing features, excellent interoperability with other Word Processors and many unique plugins that can be used to extend the program as needed. Among the new features in AbiWord-2.0 are: tables, footnotes, endnotes, mail-merge, database connectivity, revision marks and numerous server-side features such as command-line scripting. It features superb MS Word import ability as well as perfect import/export to Rich Text Format."

It exports to RTF! OMG, what about saving the file as a MS Word file?? What a concept!

Re:StarOffice has a lot of catching up to do

[cuyler]

Please don't give Sun any ideas on numbering the versions of their products.....

Re:Complete history

[Cyno]

BSD is dying. ;)