star office not availabel anymore to dl :(

[HaroOin]

i went to the link off of www.download.com and the download osnt avabile any more? does anyone know where i can get it without paying?

[siqe]

look for openoffice

[Shadoglare]

Yeah, StarOffice is no longer a free product.
But you can got to OpenOffice.org and download that, which is almost exactly the same thing.

[anonilir]

Is there any other office suites based on the star office source code or is open office the only one?

[Shadoglare]

There's also SOT Office (http://www.sot.com/en/linux/soto/) , which seems to be a tweaked version of OpenOffice.

[jglen490]

StarOffice and OpenOffice.org are separate, but functionally parallel, developments. StarOffice is now Sun's commercial office suite, while OpenOffice.org is for those of us who want an open source office suite. As was noted above SOT is still OpenOffice.org, with some tweakage.

I use OpenOffice.org (actually version 641D, the last one before 1.0 was released IIRC), and find it a very polished and professional product. It doesn't handle everything that the Other Company's product creates, but it comes really darn close and in most cases you can freely swap data files between OpenOffice.org and the Other Company's products.

BTW, it's OpenOffice.org, because there is another software house, in Europe I believe, with a copyright on OpenOffice.

[windoze killa]

Is Openoffice and Koffice capable of saving in Word format??

[X_console]

OpenOffice and Star Office are the most MS Office compatible office suite for Linux. Most others can open and write MS Office documents to a certain degree, although if your system can run it, go with OpenOffice.

[windoze killa]

Anything special required for Openoffice?

[dunbar]

Open Office 641 still uses executables named per Star Office (e.g. scalc, sdraw etc), but I haven't installed 1.0.

Another Office compatible suite, older than Star Office, is Applixware, but that is not free software. I used it back in '98, worked good for Office '97 compatibility.

[X_console]

Or you could try running MS Office with Wine. From what I hear some people have it working perfectly, while others have to live with a few glitches here and there.

[x-windows guy]

I just installed Linux into a partition on my system last night

I have Star Office on my windows partition and I like it so much, within a week after I started using it I had deleted word, excel, etc. I just have a couple of questions

1. Linux can't "see" my modem, can I download it in windows, and xfer it on a cd?

2. Is there anything special that I need to do to the Star Office files I bring over to Linux?

[GonzoJohn]

I only mention the Java powered Anyware Office because they've been sending me email lately telling me my account has expired.

http://www.anywareoffice.com/

I knew a guy at TechRepublic that said it worked very well with M$ docs and templates.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by x-windows guy

2. Is there anything special that I need to do to the Star Office files I bring over to Linux?

You will most likely need to add the executable bit.

chmod +x filename.bin

./filename.bin