Sun StarOffice 7 | 
 enlarge | From: Sun Microsystems
Category: Software
List Price: $79.99
Buy New: $4.99
You Save: $75.00 (94%)
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Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 1473
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Nt, Linux, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp, Sun Solaris
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Linux
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 3.8 x 3.2 x 0.9
MPN: SUNF2
Model: 0614647643195
UPC: 614647656508
EAN: 0614647656508
ASIN: B0000DG2N4
Release Date: November 9, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Runs on multiple operating systems, including Solaris OS, MS Windows, and Linux | | • | Simple, easy-to-use interface; contains full-featured applications | | • | Interoperable with many third-party formats like PDF and XML | | • | Easy export to PDF and Flash; increased MS Office compatibility; improved help and documentation | | • | Accessibility support for people with disabilities |
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Product Description
Full-featured multi-platform office suite with wordprocessing spreadsheet presentation graphics and database applications.Product InformationStarOffice 7 Office Suite is the world's leading office productivity suite onLinux and the Solaris OS and the lea
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| Customer Reviews: Read 77 more reviews...
 Satisfactory performance March 22, 2007
Martin Macy
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Version 7 is about 90+% compatible with MS Office. For the price it is a good value.
 About memory hogging accusations-not really May 29, 2006
runrrs
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Mr./Ms. BM_NINADA said that StarOffice hoggs memory.
I am using OpenOffice 2.0.
I am looking at my consumption at this very momemnt having one machine running MS Word the other OpenOffice .
OpenOffice uses 60Meg, the MS Word uses 30Meg. In big scheme of things it is insignificant difference. I have 1G of memory so we talking about difference between one using 3 and the other 6 percent.
 One difference of note between OO and StarOffice January 29, 2006
James Miller Esq (Alexandria, VA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I suspect there are other minor differences not mentioned here or below, but I wanted to mention one difference for Japanese Speakers using OO or StarOffice.
The popular office package from Just Systems, in particular the word processing package "Ichitaro," remains a standard in Japan. In particular many official documents are drafted and circulated in this format. (The Courts and certain national and regional bureacratic offices come to mind.)
Unfortunately, there is no "free" import filter available in the current releases of OpenOffice. However, the StarOffice release includes a filter that was developed under contract and release by Sun. This provides an important incentive to purchase the StarOffice package for anyone doing commerical copywork or translation.
Development of a filter continues but as of January 2006, nothing is released (on the authors research).
As regards, the quality and usability of the product from this bilingual with significant professional experience in U.S. and Japanese business, my experience is dumping MS Office and using either StarOffice or Openoffice is unlikely to present significant problems.
I began using the product in the pre-release stage and has used it since alongside MS and other products. There have been occasional data corruption and other problems. However in the course of doing translation with different versions of Word documents and codesets, there have been more problems using MS products. I trust my professional work on the Sun products no less (or more) than the MS products.
Incidently, the Just System Ichitaro has never given me data corruption problems but I have never used it as heavily as the MS or Sun products.
Copyright 2006 James Miller
StarOffice Rocks! October 3, 2005
D. A. Williams (St. James, MO USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
StarOffice 7 is just as good as Microsoft Office, for a fraction of the cost. I am well pleased with the product.
A fan of open-source but still ... September 17, 2005
Baivab Mitra (Jersey City, NJ)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I went through the reviews posted here and it's a like a mountain of praise to a sea of tears! Anyways, as a brief 'bout myself: I love to use open-source products, know quite a bit about software and applications, etc.
There's ONE CRITICAL aspect of Star Office/Open Office which has caused me to DUMP the software: Usage of available memory. I have verified in 3 machines running Pentium server-racks, notebook, Centrino and all having at least 256 Mb/512 Mb of RAM this product is definitely a memory hogger. Task manager continuously shows Star Office at top of the list in terms of Mem. consumption. ALL other applications - slow down.
Finally, let's admit 1 thing: You can NOT beat MS-Excel - period. I think that's the BEST EVER product of Microsoft other than MS-DOS. So, those having to work in Excel extensively - please stick to Microsoft.
Why I give 3? Any product hogging that much memory - is bad: period. It's NOT a server, don't tell me crap that there's Java and etc. - it's not doing OLTP : So? Esp. if this hogging affects ALL other applications I run: For ex.: Firefox/IE; Outlook;MS-Project, etc. ~ Then sorry!!
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