Re: [SLUG] StarOffice vs OpenOffice.org

From: Kenneth W Hansen (khansen46@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 - 17:17:29 EST


At the risk of sounding stupid...what's the Adabas
database? Is that like Access?

--- Levi Bard <levi@bard.sytes.net> wrote:
> > Has anyone used both Sun StarOffice and
> > OpenOffice.org? Are there major differences
> between
> > them (besides StarOffice costs money?).
> > I just found out that Sun has released StarOffice
> 6.1
> > Beta 1 for free download. To be honest, I'm a
> software
> > junkie. I have to at least try everything I can
> get my
> > hands on. I'm curious if StarOffice offers any
> real
> > advantage over the available free offerings
>
> I've used both. The only functional differences
> (that I read about/noticed) are the Adabas database,
> which is proprietary and can't be included in OOo as
> far as I know, and some proprietary functionality in
> the printing system, about which I really don't know
> enough to be more specific.
>
> Levi

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