Re: [school-discuss] SOT Office

[Teemu <teemu@ionstream.fi>]

SOT is a finnish Linux-house. I see SOT Office as an OpenOffice bugfix 
release with finnish flavour dedicated to the finnish markets. It contains a 
finnish proof reader, a finnish manual and support. I see this as a possible 
step for one of the biggest cities in Finland, Turku, to start adapting Linux 
and Open Source in their governmental systems as they have planned already.

Regards,

Teemu Arina
MimerDesk.org

>  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.