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StarOffice 6.0 beta review
Reviews Based on what we've seen in this beta release, StarOffice 6.0 can handle most day-to-day office tasks for free - unless want the CD and manuals, which, based on the pricing of previous versions, will cost about £30 (ex.
[February 12, 2002, 23:00]
StarOffice 6.0 review
Reviews With StarOffice 6.0, Sun steps into uncharted territory -- charging money. Although StarOffice lacks a database of its own, it does include an acquisition tool that extracts data from SQL databases and spreadsheets.
[May 20, 2002, 18:19]
Taiwan schools to enjoy free StarOffice 6.0
News In a symbolic move to capture the Taiwanese education market from Microsoft, Sun Microsystems donated StarOffice 6.0 to a local university on Wednesday. Although the current sentiment could give StarOffice 6.0 a boost in Taiwan, the launch of the...
[May 31, 2002, 10:00]
Sun adds price tag to StarOffice 6.0
News Sun Microsystems will bundle StarOffice 6.0, its productivity software, with additional services and support to make the package more attractive when it begins charging for the tools next month. The paid strategy is a new one for StarOffice, which...
[March 21, 2002, 13:59]
Sun releases beta of StarOffice 6.0
News Sun Microsystems on Tuesday unveiled the beta of StarOffice 6.0, a streamlined version of the company's free office software that's aimed to gain ground against Microsoft's Office. The new version replaces StarOffice 5.2, which was criticised as...
[October 2, 2001, 17:49]
Sun releases pricing for StarOffice
News Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 6.0 will go on sale on 21 May with a price of £52.99, the company will announce on Wednesday, in a more concerted effort by the server specialist to take on Microsoft's overwhelmingly dominant Office.
[May 15, 2002, 10:14]
MandrakeSoft clears up downloads confusion
News Linux distributor MandrakeSoft officially announced the availability of StarOffice 6.0 for Mandrake Club members on Monday, making it the first major Linux distributor to offer the final version of the office suite to its users.
[March 26, 2002, 12:43]
Sun to drop free StarOffice downloads
News Sun Microsystems is to drop its free downloads of StarOffice 5.2 on Wednesday night, as it ramps up promotional efforts around the fee-based StarOffice 6.0, the company said. In the meantime, Sun and Ximian announced a distribution deal bundling...
[May 27, 2002, 13:33]
Mandrake Linux download policy angers club members
News MandrakeSoft finalised version 8.2 of Mandrake Linux on Monday, and became the first Linux distributor to announce that it would include StarOffice 6.0, an office suite from Sun Microsystems that recently instituted fees after several years as a...
[March 22, 2002, 13:39]
Sun shows new version of StarOffice
News Sun Microsystems is showing Linux fans the next version of StarOffice, the most viable competition to Microsoft's Office package, and will release the beta version in October. Sun acquired StarOffice from Hamburg, Germany-based Star Division in...
[August 31, 2001, 8:51]
Free office suite reaches milestone release
News The free OpenOffice uses the same code base as Sun Microsystems' fee-based StarOffice. It is the result of 18 months of collaboration between Sun developers and more than 10,000 volunteer developers, which began when Sun donated the StarOffice code...
[May 2, 2002, 13:08]
Sun to charge for next StarOffice
News In a move that could undercut its anti-Microsoft campaign, Sun Microsystems plans to start charging for the next version of its StarOffice software, a suite of programs that competes with Microsoft Office but runs on Linux and Solaris as well as...
[February 26, 2002, 10:10]
Open source debate brought to a close - for now
Talkback In the largest trial, Bristol city council installed Sun's StarOffice on 5,500 desktops last July, and it has since been moving staff across from Corel WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 (previously used by 60% of staff) and Microsoft Office (40%), a...
[November 20, 2006, 22:59]
Alternatives to Microsoft Office review
Reviews OpenOffice 2 is the free version of StarOffice. The lesser-known StarOffice 8 provides basic productivity tools and throws in a couple of extras, such as a drawing program. StarOffice email n/a n/a inc.with Mac OS) n/a
[October 1, 2007, 16:21]
Alternatives to Microsoft Office review
Reviews Sun's StarOffice 7.0 is a lesser-known name, but it provides all the basic productivity tools and throws in a couple of extras, such as a drawing program. StarOffice 7.0 If you want to spend the absolute minimum -- that is, nothing -- on your...
[June 23, 2004, 13:40]
StarOffice 8 review
Reviews StarOffice 8 has improved its setup routine for enterprise users. For a single-user system, StarOffice is straightforward to install. For the most part, StarOffice 8 does a sound job of importing Microsoft Office documents, but don't expect...
[September 29, 2005, 0:00]
Alternatives to Microsoft Office review
Reviews StarOffice 8 StarOffice 8 is a lesser-known name, but it provides all the basic productivity tools and throws in a couple of extras, such as a drawing program. It's no secret that Microsoft Office dominates the productivity suite market, but that...
[October 5, 2005, 0:00]
Sun seeds StarOffice user base
News In Australia, Sun is offering educational and non-profit institutions almost unlimited rights to use its suite of office productivity software StarOffice 6.0 for a nominal fee, believing that it will "sow the seeds" for a large enterprise user-base.
[October 18, 2002, 11:58]
Sony dumps MS Office for StarOffice
News Sun Microsystems announced a deal on Wednesday to install Sun's StarOffice software on some European Sony PCs, marking another defection from dominant Microsoft products. By the end of the year, Sony will include version 6.0 of StarOffice on most...
[December 6, 2002, 7:24]
SuSE 8.0 arrives without StarOffice
News Germany's SuSE said on Friday that the new version of its Linux operating system distribution does not include the latest version of StarOffice because its proprietary, fee-based licence would have increased the cost of the operating system.
[April 26, 2002, 17:20]
