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Review: Sun StarOffice 7

Posted by michael on from the openoffice-rules dept.

ValourX writes "Here's the Internet's first comprehensive review of Sun's new StarOffice 7 suite. With the ability to export to PDF and SWF and greatly improved conversion filters, Sun's $80 office suite is more than a match for the upcoming ultra-expensive Microsoft Office System 2003."

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  1. Re:Other Office Apps by questionlp · · Score: 5, Informative

    I believe the reason why they keep the database application in StarOffice "to themselves" and not release it with OpenOffice.org is that Adabas is commercial software and Sun had to license it. They can't turn around and open source it or releasing it with OpenOffice.org... at least without paying an ungodly sum to the maker of Adabas.

  2. Re:Flash? by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 5, Informative

    Probably for presentations; have a read only, run anywhere presentation format. A lot more people have Shockwave than even the viewer for PowerPoint. a lot fewer still have {Star,Open}Office.

  3. Java, Python, C++ and others by doublem · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the API FAQ for OpenOffice.

    "OpenOffice implements the API with UNO (Universal Network Objects). Currently there are language bindings for Java and C++. You can implement your own language binding, and in fact we are actively looking for a volunteer to create a C language binding.

    Additionally UNO allows control from scripting languages and scripting environments (for example debuggers). Currently StarBASIC (VBA syntax compatible) can call on the API and there is a prototype written for Python integration. "

    If OpenOffice can di it, I'd wager StarOffice can too. The StarOffice SDK should have all the details.

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  4. Re:Other Office Apps by bhtooefr · · Score: 5, Informative

    But "If you are a student, researcher, staff, or faculty member you can download StarOffice for free." Also, "Academic and Research institutions, including Primary and Secondary (K-12) Schools, 2-and 4-year Colleges, and Universities" can get an unlimited site license for the cost of media and shipping.

  5. Re:Other Office Apps by ninejaguar · · Score: 5, Informative
    Adabas-D is only commercial if you buy it under that name. Under another guise, it was called SAP-DB and Open Sourced in 2001. It is now called MaxDB and according to SAP is being marketed and developed by my MySQL as an enterprise ready Open Source product.

    There's a Slashdot article that talks about SAP-DB. And, there's a decent article by someone who installed it.

    = 9J =