Em Qua, 2004-02-18 às 13:03, Rodolfo J. Paiz escreveu:
> There is also Sun StarOffice 7 which runs on Windows, Solaris, and Linux
> and which costs only $80 in the USA for the whole package. I've used SO
> since 6.0 for the last two years and I have been EXTREMELY pleased with it.
> I just installed SO7 two days ago, but the initial impression is again
> excellent.
Is it that much better than Openoffice.org that would worth the payment? How does it compare to OOo Draw, since they forked from the same thing?
At the point in time when I made my decision, my key software factors were the additional languages, dictionaries, spell-checkers, etc. in StarOffice (given that I need to speak/write English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French) and the greater stability in SO6 than in OO (again, at that time). However, a strong and primary factor was that SO is the only decent (and decently strong) commercial contender against MS Office, and most corporations base most IT decisions around their office suite.
I chose to pay for SO in order to support them and help increase competition for Microsoft. I am also attempting to convince small businesses with which I have a relationship to move first to SO so they have legal licenses for their software, and once they use SO I begin to introduce Linux to them as well. So partly it was a software decision, but also partly a political/macroeconomic one.
I have not made any recent comparison between OO and SO, since my political reasons continue to be valid and I am 100% delighted with the SO product. No interest in switching, even to save another $80.
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
