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- High-Tech Manufacturer Ups Productivity, Reduces Costs by U.S.$100,000 Annually
- W. L. Gore & Associates is the world leader in understanding and engineering a versatile fluoropolymer called polytetrafluoro-ethylene, or PTFE. Gore's nearly 7,000 employees need up-to-date desktop software for continuous communication and collaboration, requiring Gore to upgrade its aging Microsoft Office 97 and Office 2000 software. The company seriously considered...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Microsoft Corp., Gore, Microsoft Office, StarOffice, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies
- Reliance Mutual Lowers Costs With StarOffice and Sun
- Since 1911, Reliance Mutual has specialised in the provision of a wide range of financial products and services, including life assurance, pensions and investment products. The company completed a major programme to re-structure and consolidate its operations, with a view to reducing costs and increasing efficiency. As part of this...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Office Productivity, StarOffice, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies
- Business Information Firm Changes Productivity Software to Meet Global Business Needs
- Scope e-Knowledge Center Private Limited is a leading business information organization in Chennai, India, providing remote knowledge based-services, such as research and database services, to clients in the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe. For close to two years, Scope used a combination of StarOffice and Microsoft Office 2000 as...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., StarOffice, Office Suites, Software
- Case studies
- Sluis Muncipality Replaces StarOffice With Office to Increase Productivity
- Sluis Municipality wanted to replace its StarOffice environment. Compatibility problems with Linux and its other software were having a negative effect on staff productivity and the helpdesk was being inundated with calls. So, following a comprehensive price/quality comparison, Sluis Municipality decided to migrate to Microsoft Office System to increase its...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Sluis Muncipality, StarOffice, Help Desk, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, It Operations
- Case studies
- Microsoft Case Study: Adecco Belgium
- In 2002, Adecco Belgium began to use Star Office 5.0 desktop applications to save money. However, the company found that in the course of performing their daily jobs, users experienced more technical and practical problems than anticipated. Even communication with clients became more difficult than it had in the past....
- Tags: Adecco, Microsoft Corp., StarOffice, Desktops, Tools & Techniques, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Management
- Case studies
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- StarOffice 8 Office Suite: XML Based User Configuration
- The cost of maintaining a large office suite installation can be high. The Java Desktop System Configuration Manager provides a powerful solution to this problem by using a central repository for configuration items. System administrators can easily administer a StarOffice installation with a simple Internet browser. The StarOffice XML configuration...
- Tags: Java Desktop System Configuration Manager, Configuration Item, StarOffice XML Configuration, StarOffice, XML, Office Suites, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
