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Brand: Sun Microsystems EAN: 0614647656508 Format: CD-ROM Label: Sun Microsystems Manufacturer: Sun Microsystems Model: 0614647643195 MPN: SUNF2 Platform: Windows NT, Linux, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Sun Solaris Publisher: Sun Microsystems Release Date: November 09, 2003 Studio: Sun Microsystems Features:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Full-featured multi-platform office suite with wordprocessing spreadsheet presentation graphics and database applications.Product InformationStarOffice 7 Office Suite is the world's leading office productivity suite onLinux and the Solaris OS and the lea Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Satisfactory performanceVersion 7 is about 90+% compatible with MS Office. For the price it is a good value. Rating:  - About memory hogging accusations-not reallyMr./Ms. BM_NINADA said that StarOffice hoggs memory. I am using OpenOffice 2.0. I am looking at my consumption at this very momemnt having one machine running MS Word the other OpenOffice . OpenOffice uses 60Meg, the MS Word uses 30Meg. In big scheme of things it is insignificant difference. I have 1G of memory so we talking about difference between one using 3 and the other 6 percent. Rating:  - One difference of note between OO and StarOfficeI suspect there are other minor differences not mentioned here or below, but I wanted to mention one difference for Japanese Speakers using OO or StarOffice. The popular office package from Just Systems, in particular the word processing package "Ichitaro," remains a standard in Japan. In particular many official documents are drafted and circulated in this format. (The Courts and certain national and regional bureacratic offices come to mind.) Unfortunately, there is ... Read More Rating: - StarOffice Rocks!StarOffice 7 is just as good as Microsoft Office, for a fraction of the cost. I am well pleased with the product. Rating: - A fan of open-source but still ...I went through the reviews posted here and it's a like a mountain of praise to a sea of tears! Anyways, as a brief 'bout myself: I love to use open-source products, know quite a bit about software and applications, etc. There's ONE CRITICAL aspect of Star Office/Open Office which has caused me to DUMP the software: Usage of available memory. I have verified in 3 machines running Pentium server-racks, notebook, Centrino and all having at least 256 Mb/512 Mb of RAM this product is definitely ... Read More |
