>>What's the relationship between StarOffice and OpenOffice? Methings it started as the same program - is this correct?
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>>Hilmar.
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>StarOffice prior to 5.1 was a software product by a German software house. It was so good at reading and writing Microsoft Office documents that Sun saw it as an Office Killer App and purchased the whole company. They released SO 5.2 under the Sun logo, but it was just 5.1 with some bug fixes and banner changes.
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Thanks for the information. I'll take a look at Open Office.
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