What is the difference between staroffice 8 and openoffice

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Information here may no longer be accurate, and links may no longer be available or reliable. Suarez-Potts explained. StarOffice is built with open-source software same code as OpenOffice. To make modifications, one can easily download the corresponding OpenOffice. In one sense, that puts OpenOffice. StarOffice has the advantage of being the more thoroughly qualified product.

Thatis very similar to the difference between the enterprise supported Red Hat Linux and the community work with Fedora. On the other hand, if a user doesnit speak one of the dozen languages supported in StarOffice, OpenOffice. In earlier times, the community struggled with the coding, support and movement to the Mac OS X platform.

Thatis why the early versions of OpenOffice were X11 only -- it was easier to port. However, for the last year or so, Sun has made a commitment to the Mac and has assigned engineers to the native port.

Even so, Mr. Suarez-Potts pointed out, the project remains a profoundly community effort. He also wanted readers to know that when StarOffice 9.