Em Qua, 2004-02-18 às 13:33, Rodolfo J. Paiz escreveu: > >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. OOo is evolving fast, specially in terms of multilanguage and dictionaries. As for Brazilian Portuguese, we just finished translation of the whole help. There's an oddity on pt-br: sun released a complete translation, independent of the rest of community, and now we have two different pt-br versions. I thought you were talking about more resources on SO draw than on OOo draw... I'm really curious about it. -- []s Alexandre Ganso 500 FOUR vermelha - Diretor Steel Goose Moto Group
