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Re: [school-discuss] SOT Office



Am Sam, 2002-04-27 um 11.14 schrieb Karl Sarnow:
> 
> 
> Dennis Heuer wrote:
> 
> > Don't know if you already know it but there is another version and/or
> > concurrent to StarOffice. It is called SOT Office and is a mixture of
> > OpenOffice and other free source productivity tools. It is free under
> > the GPL. The developers see this project as an answer to SUN's decision
> > to make StarOffice commercial.
> > 
> > See the press release:
> > http://www.sot.com/en/linux/soto/
> > 
> > Dennis Heuer
> > dh@onclick.org
> > 
> 
> Nice, but what is the difference to OpenOffice?
> 
> THanks
> Karl
> 


I could not test it. It breaks because of the same reason why openoffice
and staroffice 6.0 break on my system (something with libc). So far I
can only say that there is not much difference visible yet ;) There are
some screenshots on the project page. They actually look same like
openoffice. As far as I understood, SOT office is openoffice with little
feature enhancement and bug fixing--but not more. It will only be a
concurrent to staroffice in that the company offers support. That
support is not free, at least not to non-Bestlinux users. Bestlinux is
the linux distribution of that company. But patches etc. may arise under
the GPL. So, if you are fine with openoffice then there is no reason to
switch. If you seek for a free staroffice then this is at least a
cheaper offer with open community working on the code.

Dennis Heuer
dh@onclick.org