[ale] StarOffice

[JANINDRA at MS.NDCORP.COM]

I was excited to hear this news. I just hope the community trims the fat on
this one. It seems to be a resource hog on my P400 system, yet WordPerfect
runs smooth. I would pound at the code but, not being fluent in anything
other then Perl would probably cause problems.

Randy

-----Original Message-----
 From: MetroBoy [mailto:metroboy at sprynet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 11:28 PM
To: ALE; 2600
Subject: [ale] StarOffice


M$ BloatWare 97 & 2000 are now obsolete.  Sun has acquired StarOffice
and is making it available for free.  It will soon be open source and
cross-platform with Java APIs.  Let's hope they succeed where Corel
failed.

http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice

Oh, and it can read/write MS Office file formats, too!  Now we need a
"Burn All Office 97 CDs Day" in Redmond.  :)~

Ed