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Sun adds Apple native support to StarOffice 9

Sun on Monday announced that StarOffice 9 was available with native Mac OS X support. The company's latest StarOffice statement gets a revamp throughout and makes it easier to edit PDF files, blog and publish wikis. It also supports Open Document Format, Microsoft Office--legacy and OOXML files--and...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., StarOffice, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Sun plugs holes in StarOffice

Two weeks after the OpenOffice.org team shipped patches for code execution flaws in office suite, Sun Micrososystems has followed up with a high-priority update for StarOffice, which is based on the open-source code. Sun's patch, available for Windows, Linux and Solaris, address highly-critical vulnerabilities that could expose...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenOffice.org, Arbitrary Code Execution, StarOffice, OpenOffice, Patches, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Sun switches search alliances from Google to Microsoft

Which came first -- Google dropping StarOffice from its Google Pack or Sun agreeing to distribute Microsoft's Live-Search-powered MSN toolbar with the Java runtime? We'll probably never know at least until Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz blogs about it. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Google Inc., Alliance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., StarOffice, Blogging, Strategy, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Management, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, Programming Languages, Java, Operating Systems, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Openoffice 3.0 vs MS Office

When you compare Microsoft Office to OpenOffice 3.0 you're left with one question: to whom does Microsoft Office still make sense? by Paul Murphy

Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Paul Murphy, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, StarOffice, Operating Systems

Blog posts 2008-10-20

OpenOffice 3 launch timed perfectly but will Sun, IBM exploit opportunity?

Sun and IBM could not have asked for better timing for the launch of OpenOffice 3, a major upgrade of the open source office suite. Both vendors are preparing to ship commercial offerings of StarOffice and Symphony based on the new OO 3 release and have a...

Tags: Desktop, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Training, IBM Corp., Symphony 1.2, Conversion Tool, OpenOffice, StarOffice, Open Source, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Sun StarOffice 9 to launch Nov 19, OpenOffice 3 launch on Oct 13

Sun StarOffice 9 to launch Nov 19, OpenOffice 3 launch on Oct 13who MS Office thenWe are switching to Open Office with this new version. No more dollars for MS Office when OO is free.RE: Sun StarOffice 9 to launch Nov 19, OpenOffice 3 launch on Oct 13I still...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice, Sun StarOffice 9, Nov 19, Oct 13, OpenOffice 3, Microsoft Office, Nov, Oct, StarOffice, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

Sun StarOffice 9 to launch Nov 19, OpenOffice 3 launch on Oct 13

Sun is expected to launch a major upgrade of StarOffice based on the new OpenOffice 3.0 on November 19, sources said. OpenOffice 3.0 is set to be officially launched in Paris on October 13.  Sun's StarOffice 9 will be available in late November. More to...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenOffice 3.0, StarOffice, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Pragma Translator (exe)

Pragma 5.x is a multilingual text translator for many Windows applications. You may easily translate Web pages, e-mail, large documents, helps and any texts in many popular applications. The software evidently translates Web pages in Internet Explorer, FireFox, AOL, Netscape, e-mail messages in Outlook, Outlook Express, difficultly formatted documents in...

Tags: Trident Software, Web Page, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail, StarOffice, Groupware, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2008-10-01

Do we need two open source office suites?

Do we need two open source office suites?That Made Me Scratch My Head, TooMethinks Dana needs to go back and double-check his sources. And, by the way, StarOffice's roots actually go back much further than that: Star Division's StarWriter was first developed back in the mid-80's for CP/M. ...

Tags: OpenOffice, Linux, Word processors, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, open-source office suite, Symphony, StarOffice, Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-06-05

Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?

Britain's national plan to bring order and interoperability to the patient records and operations of the national health service was going to cost about £1.2bn and be an enormous business and political success by early 1998. Ten years later it's widely expected to be a continuing £13bn pound...

Tags: Agency, Health Care, Bureaucracy, StarOffice, Open Source, Advertising & Promotion, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Will IBM's Lotus Symphony succeed where other Office killers haven't?

IBM's September 18 unveiling of its IBM Lotus Symphony desktop-productivity suite -- yet another Open Document Format ODF alternative to Microsoft Office -- got me thinking about when and whether too many choices yield confusion. IBM Lotus Symphony is another OpenOffice.org variant. It is free and available...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., StarOffice, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., IBM Lotus Symphony, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-09-18

StarOffice (jsp)

StarOffice 8 is an affordable office productivity suite that can read, edit and save Microsoft Office files. It contains full-featured applications, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics and database capabilities. StarOffice 8 is available in many languages and it offers flexibility for your home or office by running on multiple...

Tags: JSP, StarOffice 8, StarOffice, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2007-08-29

Microsoft Office is dead meme revived

Microsoft Office is dead meme revivedDefinition of "Keep out of the dead pool"Stay as far away from Microsoft as you can, and stay in the shallow end if one ever has to wade into the poisoned pool.Two innacuraciesNot a bad summary of the current state of the business, you have...

Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OPEN SOURCE, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., object-oriented, StarOffice, OpenOffice

Discussion threads 2007-08-14

Microsoft Office is dead meme revived

My friend Steve Gillmor has been bloviating about the death of bloated Microsoft Office for years. Google's cloud-based apps are poised to put a stake in the heart of Microsoft's Office business, which accounted for the majority $16.37 billion in revenue for Microsoft Business Division in the fiscal year ending...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., StarOffice, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-14

Sun/Google and Adobe now gunning for Microsoft Office

Whether Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a full-fledged Microsoft Office competitor is up for debate. But StarOffice, Sun's desktop-productivity suite, is definitely a head-to-head Office rival. And StarOffice distributed by Google? There's no way anyone could claim that isn't meant to be a direct shot across the Microsoft Office bow.Over...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., StarOffice, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-08-14

Barcode Macros for OpenOffice and StarOffice (zip)

Add barcodes to OpenOffice and StarOffice with IDAutomation's VB macros and free barcode font tools. Barcodes supported include Postnet, Code 3 of 9, Interleaved 2 of 5, Code 93, Code 128, UPC, EAN, UCC-128 and MSI. Tutorial includes Calc, Base and Writer examples.

Tags: Tutorial, Font, StarOffice, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2007-08-14

Google kicks Microsoft where it hurts, again

Google kicks Microsoft where it hurts, againGet it Right ...Staroffice is available from SUN in which you get support and addition templates, graphics for the $70 USD.OpenOffice is the same core, with no support. other than thru the community, but it is FREE.GOOGLE has been supporting the OpenOffice version.Message has...

Tags: OpenOffice, StarOffice, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-11

Google kicks Microsoft where it hurts, again

Do you know about Google Updater? There is a good chance you have it installed on your computer already as it's bundled with other Google products like the browser toolbar. Well, in what seems to be an obvious attempt to steal even more users away from Microsoft Office...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2007-08-11

Kural Tamil Software (Tamil) (exe)

Kural Tamil Software is a keyboard manager that helps to directly input Tamil in any Microsoft Windows applications. It can be used with MS Office, Open Office, Star Office, Google's Docs, and Spreadsheet, WordPad, Notepad, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, Adobe products, and many more applications. And also helps to chat...

Tags: Unicode, Kural Tamil Software, Keyboards, StarOffice, Hardware, Peripherals, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2007-07-05

Are Linux vendors predatory?

Are Linux vendors predatory?Oops..."You can release code you wrote and seek to control it, through some version of a BSD license"One does not use a BSD style license to control code. A good license to control code is the MPL - witness all of the companies that use the...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Red Hat Inc., Covalent Technologies, predatory behavior, MPL, OpenOffice, StarOffice, software

Discussion threads 2007-05-30