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- Microsoft Office faces increasing competition from IBM, Google, Apple, and Yahoo
- IBM is the latest company to throw its hat into the ring in an effort to compete with Microsoft for a share of the lucrative desktop productivity application market. Its plans are to offer office software from its Lotus Symphony suite for free. The suite contains word processing,...
- Tags: Word-processing, Google Inc., Google Docs, Suite, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple iWork, IBM Corp., Presentation Software, StarOffice, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Andy Moon
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- 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
- 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
- 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
- A look at Office Productivity Application options for SMBs
- Trivial, superficial article based on incomplete research.This article covers almost none of the main points of interest to organizations considering MS Office alternatives, such as the fact that it's harder to train a user when "upgrading" to Office 12 (2007) than to Open Office. It misses entirely the significant other...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, StarOffice, Jim-MN, feedback, microsoft, software, office suite, odf, open standards, alternatives, Sun Microsystems Inc., small and medium business
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview (exe)
- The StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview is a plug-in for Microsoft Word 2003 that allows users of Microsoft Word 2003 to read, edit and save import to the OpenDocument Format ODF. This initial plug-in application will support the conversion of text documents (.doc/.odt) only and full support of spreadsheet and...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Plug-in, StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Microsoft Word, Word Processors, StarOffice, Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2007-02-27
- Quick View Plus (exe)
- Quick View Plus 9 lets you view all the files and email attachments you need, instantly, without purchasing numerous software programs. Quick View Plus maintains the formatting of the files you view. So you can see and print files as they were originally created and meant to be seen, complete...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., E-mail, StarOffice, Microsoft Project, OpenOffice, Web Browsers, Word Processors, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Microsoft Office, Internet
- Software downloads 2007-01-18
- Microsoft Office to get a dose of OpenDocument
- A Great IdeaI think Microsoft is arrogant and shortsighted to not support the OpenDocument format in addition to their own proprietary formats. Maybe they think supporting it means people will think they are accepting OpenDocument as a real competitor and threat. Maybe they think supporting it will just encourage more...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, openoffice.org, office, opendocument, staroffice, odf, robert.nargang@..., hardware, rnargang, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2006-05-08
- Taking a closer look at OpenOffice.org 2.0
- If you're like most IT folks, you've been using the mainMicrosoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access) for as long asyou can remember. After all Microsoft Office has come pre-installed on new PCsfor years and many companies have standardized on it. Having been stuck in theMicrosoft Office world for...
- Tags: OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice.org 2.0, Greg Shultz, StarOffice
- Technical articles 2006-04-13
- Google Desktop SDK (zip)
- The Google Desktop SDK enables software developers to integrate Desktop with their own applications. Write plug-ins that let your users search: * Email applications such as Lotus, Eudora, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail * Files from iTunes, Wordperfect, StarOffice, or any other file format * Web history from Opera, AOL, or...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Desktop, SDK, Google Desktop SDK, E-mail, StarOffice, E-mail Providers, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Internet
- Software downloads 2006-02-24
- Syscalculator (zip)
- Syscalculcator 1.72, Eurocalculcator can convert your values from one of 12 old currency units to new Euro. WizardExpress, a conversion tool supports Excel, Word, Access, Wordperfect, Staroffice. also all of kind offices. Features: Simple Calculcator; WizardExpress, a conversion tool, up to 11 currency units to new Euro; Help documentation and...
- Tags: StarOffice, Word Processors, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Productivity, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2005-11-14
- The office is open…
- An article in Computer Weekly mentioned that Bristol council will bemigrating 5500 desktops to SunÂ’sStarOffice suite. Even taking in toaccount the cost of converting existing documents and two half-day courses forusers, they stand to make massive savings over Microsoft Office. StarOffice is developed by Sun, here is their salesdescription...
- Tags: StarOffice
- Blog posts 2005-11-06
- Centralizing UNIX Authentication and User Provisioning With Oracle Internet Directory
- Burlington Coat Factory BCF is a major garment retailer, based in the Northeast. BCF uses Linux workstations for conducting their core business with employees and customers. They use Star Office for their word processing needs and Oracle ERP and other applications also run on Linux and some Unix variants. There...
- Tags: Word-processing, User Provisioning, Oracle Corp., Internet, Burlington Coat Factory, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, StarOffice, LDAP, Open Source, Software, Office Suites, Directory Services, Enterprise Software
- White papers 2005-09-01
- StarOffice 8 Office Suite
- A migration from Microsoft Office to StarOffice can seem like a challenge for both users and administrators Microsoft Office documents and templates need to be converted to the StarOffice file format, existing scripting and custom solutions need to be migrated, and current business rules and processes may have to be...
- Tags: Migration, StarOffice, Office Suites, Software
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Sun plans July release for StarOffice 8
- Anyone using this at the office?I use OpenOffice at home...it's a lot cheaper and works great for home use. Does anyone have any enterprise experience with it on intel platforms with windows?
- Tags: lostpaddler, openoffice.org, programming, StarOffice, StarOffice 8, Sun Microsystems Inc., SUN PLANS
- Discussion threads 2005-05-03
- Is Office alternative WinLibre any good?
- I stumbled upon this software when looking for video editors.I haven't downloaded or tested this (151 meg).There is only 1 revu.For all those whining about high MS ofc prices, is this a reasonable alternative?I'm going to just sit back and listen.This is what download.com shows for Winlibre:WinLibre is a Free/Open...
- Tags: Dr Dij, Microsoft Office, Open, OpenOffice, windows, WinLibre, WinLibre web site
- Discussion threads 2005-04-07
- Sun pushes OpenOffice standard
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- Tags: ISO standards, OpenOffice, Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenOffice.org, XML, Jonathan Schwartz, StarOffice, OASIS, Microsoft Corp., ISO, IDA
- Technical articles 2004-10-01
- OpenOffice: A legal Trojan horse--but for whom?
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- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, trojan horse, Sun Microsystems Inc., OpenOffice, licensee, Microsoft Corp., StarOffice
- Technical articles 2004-09-21
- Convert Microsoft Office files to OpenOffice with the Star Office Migration Partner
- Many organizations have begun looking at OpenOffice as apotential replacement for Microsoft Office. One of the biggest stumbling blocksto migrating from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice deals with what to do with allof that data that your organization has piled up in Office documents. You cando a mass migration to OpenOffice...
- Tags: Brien M. Posey MCSE, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Documents, OpenOffice, partnership, software, StarOffice
- Technical articles 2004-06-22
- OpenOffice.org is a worthy competitor for Microsoft Office
- The OpenOffice.org office suite has come a long way since its inception--so much so that it's now a viable alternative to Microsoft Office. See how this open source application fares against the Goliath Microsoft Office suite.It’s so hard to let go.Even those IT managers who want to make the break...
- Tags: OpenOffice, OpenOffice.org office suite, Jack Wallen, Jr., OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office
- Technical articles 2002-11-27
