Product DescriptionFull-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
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Rating: - Satisfactory performance
Version 7 is about 90+% compatible with MS Office. For the price it is a good value.
Rating: - About memory hogging accusations-not really
Mr./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 StarOffice
I 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.)
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
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- Satisfactory performance
- About memory hogging accusations-not really
- One difference of note between OO and StarOffice