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Sun Microsystems on Monday plans to announce several key enhancements to its StarOffice and OpenOffice.org office productivity software suites. StarOffice 8 and the corresponding open version, OpenOffice.org 2.3, have both been updated with a variety of new features, including the ability to edit for blog servers along with enhanced charting capabilities and tools to reduce the size of presentations, Mark Herring, senior director of Network.com for Sun Microsystems, told LinuxInsider.
Re: Sun Adds New Twinkle to StarOffice, OpenOffice
Posted by: BillinDetroit 2007-12-13 19:34:59 In reply to: Katherine Noyes
I have been an 'Open Office' user since before Sun bought it. I have always felt it was at least as good as MS-Office and, frequently, better.
That said (here's the 'other shoe'), I can't say the same for the blogging extension in Star Office. Much as I love FOSS, Windows Live Writer is the better blog editor.
I need to make it plain that I bought the extension from Sun ... whereas Live Writer is free from Microsoft. I am scraping by financially, but I thought I'd at least toss a little something down the well to keep the FOSS code level up.
Odd that, for each company, their better product is their free one.
That said (here's the 'other shoe'), I can't say the same for the blogging extension in Star Office. Much as I love FOSS, Windows Live Writer is the better blog editor.
I need to make it plain that I bought the extension from Sun ... whereas Live Writer is free from Microsoft. I am scraping by financially, but I thought I'd at least toss a little something down the well to keep the FOSS code level up.
Odd that, for each company, their better product is their free one.
