Sun’s StarOffice Added To Google Pack
Aug 13, 2007 at 8:53am ET by Barry Schwartz
Google Pack Adds StarOffice from Google Operating System reports Google has added StarOffice, Sun’s office suite, to the Google Pack.
StarOffice has a word processor, a spreadsheet tool, presentations tool, databases, math formulas and drawing tools. Typically, Sun charges $69.95 but it is free with the Google Pack. It is worth noting that Google and Sun formed this technology partnership about a year ago.
Google Operating System wonders why they did not include the OpenOffice version of the software. The rational behind that question is that the “primary difference between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org being that StarOffice includes some proprietary components like clip-art graphics, fonts, templates and tools for Microsoft Office migration.”
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This is interesting. I use OpenOffice at home and MicrosoftOffice 200? at work. I can move documents between the two with little to no problem, sometimes a formatting thing pops up but other than that I have no issues. I use Gmail for my email and such so I cant really think of any reason to spend money on Microsoft Office for Business anymore – especially for my home PC.
I’m going to check out what Google offers along w/ the StarOffice program – maybe it will be better together than OpenOffice is alone