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	StarOffice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		StarOffice is the commercialization of a stable version of the open-source codebase developed by OpenOffice.org with some additional features.
		StarOffice supports the XML file format, including (as of StarOffice 8) the OpenDocument standard, and can generate PDF and Flash formats.
		StarOffice was originally developed by the German company StarDivision, founded by Marco Börries in 1986.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/StarOffice (789 words)

	StarOffice -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		StarOffice (also known as StarSuite) is (Click link for more info and facts about Sun Microsystems) Sun Microsystems' commercial (Click link for more info and facts about office suite) office suite (Merchandise consisting of a computer program that is offered for sale) software package.
		StarOffice was originally developed by the (A person of German nationality) German company (Click link for more info and facts about StarDivision) StarDivision, founded by Marco Börries in 1986.
		The company and the rights to StarOffice were acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999 for US$73.5 million, as Sun were seeking to compete with (Click link for more info and facts about Microsoft Office) Microsoft Office.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/staroffice1.htm (378 words)

	PCWorld.com - Sun Readies StarOffice 8
		StarOffice 8 succeeds StarOffice 7, which was released in late 2003.
		StarOffice is based on OpenOffice.org, a free open source Office suite, for which Sun says it does over 90 percent of the engineering work.
		StarOffice is currently available in Chinese (simplified and traditional), Korean, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Swedish.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,119998,00.asp (336 words)

	UnixWorld \| Review \| StarOffice 5.2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		StarOffice is an excellent choice for managers who administer heterogeneous environments, including Solaris, Windows and Linux, and who need office documents to be shared between the environments.
		StarOffice is not suitable in environments where the cost of the office suite is not significant compared to the overall IT costs.
		StarOffice 5.2 could make some impact on Microsoft Office if Sun succeeds in its marketing strategy, but is unlikely to cause a large-scale conversion from Windows to UNIX.
	www.nwc.com /unixworld/1118/1118uw.html (1349 words)

	Sun sets $76 price tag on Office rival \| CNET News.com
		StarOffice 5.2 has been available as a free download since Sun acquired the StarOffice product line in 1999, but Sun said earlier this year it would charge for the new version and provide better support for customers using it.
		StarOffice is available for educational customers at the cost of the CD, instruction manuals and shipping.
		StarOffice is based on the same software as OpenOffice, an open-source project that is developed by Sun and others.
	news.com.com /2100-1001-913812.html (1182 words)

	PCQuest : Linux Hands On : StarOffice 5.2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		StarOffice automatically adds itself to your KDE panel, but if you use another window manager, you may have to start it manually.
		StarOffice Base, the database module, which uses Adabas D as the back-end instead of the Oterro database used previously.
		The downside to all this, is that StarOffice takes ages to load and needs a fast system with oodles of RAM to get good performance out of it.
	www.pcquest.com /content/search/showarticle.asp?artid=15554 (602 words)

	LinuxPlanet - Reviews - The StartX Files: Word to the Wise: StarOffice 6 Beta - A Mean Chicken Cordon Bleu
		If I had ever taken a poll on the things potential StarOffice users hated the most, I would be willing to bet that the StarDesktop, Star Division's and (later) Sun's all-encompassing GUI for StarOffice would rank very high in that poll's results.
		StarOffice is still not a true suite of applications.
		Initially loading the StarOffice application, no matter which document type you're opening, still takes quite a while, and I saw no negligible differences between this procedure in StarOffices 5.2 and 6.0.
	www.linuxplanet.com /linuxplanet/reviews/3818/1 (1217 words)

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		StarOffice is the leading, full-featured productivity suite for all major platforms, including Solaris (TM) Operating Environment, Windows, Linux, and, later in the year, the Macintosh.
		StarOffice Suite offers a feature-rich single desktop environment, with tools such as word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, web-publishing, email, scheduling and database applications that offer businesses and individuals an alternative to proprietary office suites.
		The StarOffice source code is scheduled to be available to the open source community on October 13, 2000.
	www.openoffice.org /project/www/press/sun_release.html (1473 words)

	Feature Article: The New StarOffice 7 Desktop Suite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sun's new StarOffice 7 office productivity suite is turning heads as a compelling, low-cost alternative to MS Office.
		StarOffice 6.0 - available in 10 languages - is already in the hands of more than 40 million users worldwide and available from more than 60 OEMs.
		Another feature of StarOffice 7 that extends its enterprise reach is vertical text support for Asian languages like Japanese and Korean, as well as bi-directional support - right to left, left to right - for Arabic, Hindi and Hebrew.
	www.cobalt.com /featured-articles/software/2003-1109 (1179 words)

	Star Office
		StarOffice's high performance means you do not have to upgrade your computers to the level required for MS Office 2000.
		Microsoft's goal is to use compatibility and support issues to force upgrades of all their products every two to three years (generally forcing you to upgrade your computers as well).
		Note: StarOffice's ability to import of Microsoft PowerPoint slide shows is weak compared to it's ability to import Word and Excel documents.
	www.aaxnet.com /product/staroff.html (746 words)

	OpenOffice.org, StarOffice gaining momentum, expert says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She is an OpenOffice.org and StarOffice instructor and author and a SearchEnterpriseLinux.com Ask the Expert advisor.
		Sun is giving away StarOffice to many educational institutions; it's available to any educational institution for the cost of the media.
		OpenOffice.org and StarOffice software are pretty much the same, except that StarOffice has other extras: templates, the Adabas database, a WordPerfect filter [on Windows], etc. You can create all the templates you need, including [by] simply opening all your current templates in OpenOffice.org and saving them in the OpenOffice.org template file format.
	searchopensource.techtarget.com /qna/0,289202,sid39_gci888081,00.html (1122 words)

	Technorati Tag: staroffice
		StarOffice 8 Officially Released StarOffice 8 was officially released today.
		NewsForge (via Slashdot) wrote: The latest version, StarOffice 8, is not perfect, but it is an excellent value for businesses that do not depend on...
		Technorati Blog Finder for OpenOffice.org In case you blog and your blog is also about OpenOffice.org and/or StarOffice please add the new Technorati...
	technorati.com /tag/staroffice (538 words)

	Linspire.com - Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		StarOffice is a full-featured, multi-platform office suite for word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics and database applications.
		StarOffice Draw A powerful graphics application that enables the creation of dynamic 3D illustrations and special effects as well as saves them in a variety of common graphics file formats.
		StarOffice 7 is available now in the CNR Warehouse, either by itself, or as part of the new and improved Linspire Office.
	www.linspire.com /office7_info.php (792 words)

	Sun's StarOffice no longer free \| Tech News on ZDNet
		StarOffice 6.0 can be bought as a packaged product or a download.
		The decision completes the transition of the StarOffice suite back to being a paid product, as it was when Sun bought the software along with its maker, Germany's Star Division, in 1999.
		Sun showed its intent to make StarOffice into a serious competitor for Microsoft Office when it first began giving away StarOffice 5.2 and then, in 2000, donated the StarOffice 5.2 source code to open-source developers.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-3513_22-923039.html (808 words)

	StarOffice-FAQ
		StarOffice should further be a software, that is easy to use, easy to install, that has a high proved quality and that will be supported by Sun.
		For StarOffice 4.0, 5.0, 5.1 and 5.1a you have to use a work-around.
		StarOffice Basic is compatible to MS VBA syntax, but StarOffice uses a different object hierarchy, because it is no MS Office(TM) clone and is functioning in an other way.
	www.wernerroth.de /en/staroffice/faq/faq.html (8648 words)

	StarOffice shaping up as true Office alternative - TechUpdate - ZDNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The beta of StarOffice 6.0, released in early October (the full release version is due early next year), boasts many improvements and enhancements--including the adoption of XML file formats--over the current StarOffice 5.2 release.
		Although the StarOffice Writer and Calc documents we exported functioned correctly in their Microsoft applications, Impress crashed when we tried to export Impress presentations to the PowerPoint format--but that may be a beta-related problem.
		Support for the XML format, an open standard, allows StarOffice users greater portability of their files from platform to platform and a high degree of interoperability with any other software that supports XML.
	techupdate.zdnet.com /techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2817381,00.html (1020 words)

	Amazon.com: Software: Sun StarOffice 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		StarOffice can read, edit, and save MS Office files and is interoperable with many third party file formats like PDF and XML.
		Staroffice is the same software in a packaged version with more options like Adabas database etc. You pay for packaging, phone support and email support.
		Staroffice is backward compatible(you can open Staroffice 5.2 or 6.0 files on 7.0), opens all versions of M$ docs and runs on Windows, Linux, Solaris.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000DG2N4 (1934 words)

	NewsForge \| Getting to know and love StarOffice
		I've become intimate with StarOffice in the last three years, as a former Sun employee and co-author of "StarOffice Companion." I've used StarOffice, gotten to know it warts and all, and have what I think are the answers.
		She is also author of "StarOffice and OpenOffice Orienteering," a short guide to getting started with either application's 6.0 release.
		I tried this in staroffice 5.2, nowhere under view in any app, under options, or as just the first screen after boot the integrated desktop itself with icons, does that option ever show up.
	www.newsforge.com /business/02/05/06/165203.shtml?tid=3 (5171 words)

	OpenOffice.org: Home
		On 13 October 2000 Sun Microsystems donated the source of StarOffice to the open-source community.
		CollabNet is a trademark of CollabNet, Inc., Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, Solaris, StarOffice are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
		CollabNet, Inc. CollabNet is a trademark of CollabNet, Inc. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Solaris, Java, StarOffice, StarOffice 7 and StarSuite 7 are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the United States and other countries.
	www.openoffice.org (281 words)

	CNN.com - Technology - StarOffice: Microsoft Office power for free - July 28, 2000
		StarOffice is easy to use, and it includes most of the features you'll find in other suites.
		Only the fields highlighted in red are mandatory, and you can choose some options at the end of the form that will keep your mailbox clear if you don't want to be contacted by Sun or others.
		StarOffice will usually import the file without any further help from you.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/TECH/computing/07/28/star.office.advantage.idg (1291 words)

	Barcode Add-in for Star Office Calc spreadsheet and Adabas database
		StarOffice uses a feature called Add-Ins which allow users to use custom functions within their StarOffice applications.
		When this DLL is placed in the correct StarOffice directory, the functions can be called within your StarOffice Calc spreadsheet or Adabas database.
		After you have downloaded StarOfficeBarcodeAddin.zip and extracted IDAutomationAddIn.dll, the DLL file will need to be placed in the StarOffice Add-In directory.
	www.idautomation.com /fonts/tools/staroffice (838 words)

	Download & Install StarOffice
		To install StarOffice from a CD, you will need to have about 120 MBytes of free disk space (full installation).
		Filling out the user info form screen is optional but we recommend you at least fill out your name and e-mail address.
		To download the StarOffice install program(s) from the network, you will need to have about 180 MBytes of free disk space (about 65 MB for the install set and the rest for the actual program).
	www.bilkent.edu.tr /bilkent/services/admin/bcc/staroffice/dnload.htm (313 words)

	Why it's hard NOT to like StarOffice
		Considering that 80 percent of the people who use office suites use them for 20 percent of their features, StarOffice is the functional equivalent of Microsoft Office (as well as WordPerfect Office and Lotus SmartSuite) for most of us.
		If the code bases truly are in synch, another option might be to buy one copy of StarOffice (that gets your foot in the door with Sun's support organization), and set up the rest of your company with OpenOffice.
		If you're having a problem with StarOffice, you have 60 days from the date of purchase to call Sun's 800 number, thereby avoiding Sun's $25-per-incident fee.
	reviews-zdnet.com.com /4520-6033_16-4207279.html (636 words)

	Sun plans StarOffice in Russian, Polish and Dutch \| InfoWorld \| News \| 2005-03-10 \| By Joris Evers, IDG News Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		StarOffice, Sun's product to rival Microsoft's (Profile, Products, Articles) Office, is available in 11 languages.
		Over 40 million StarOffice licenses have been sold since Sun acquired StarOffice maker Star Division in 1999, said Carsten Müller, a product marketing manager at Sun.
		StarOffice and OpenOffice.org together hold about 7 percent of the installed Office suite market, Müller said.
	www.infoworld.com /article/05/03/10/HNsunstar_1.html (1122 words)

	StarOffice-FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		StarOffice now is available free for private and commercial use.
		StarOffice is an integrated office suite and StarOffice Desktop is an inseparable module.
		Staroffice seems to like to mess with your file types plain text setting which screws up your message window when you do that.
	www.pathtech.org /staroffice/faq/faq.html (7264 words)

	Office users can navigate by StarOffice—for free
		If Millennium is a trip to Mars, StarOffice is a one-way trip out of the solar system.
		When I tested various browsers to open complex, graphics-intensive Web pages, the StarOffice browser was on average a second faster—and sometimes much faster—than Opera, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and Netscape Communicator.
		So you don’t have to spend a bundle on office suites: StarOffice is a valid choice, and it won’t cost you a dime.
	www.gcn.com /vol18_no32/news/703-1.html (896 words)

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