On Saturday 18 May 2002 09:04, Christopher Dawkins wrote: We are Sun Star Office now partners but I haven't heard anything apart from replies to informal telephone queries. I'll get onto Sun immediately and find out. I can probably provide you withthe Linux version for certain as I have that but I don't have the post-beta Windows release yet although I could just download it. I'll check the position with Sun - saying I have a direct customer enquiry will help. As far as I understand it, education can buy the discs and then copy to all their machines so its a bit like buying from a Linux distro. I don't know what the situation will be with regards to downloading and doing the same. When I know more I'll let you know. Regards, -- Ian
Sun seem to be making a mess of it again. Just looked on their site, thinking of getting a boxed set to start with, and they promote Gem Distribution Ltd (www.gem.co.uk) as the provider.
The Gem site advertises XP and Xboxes. It makes no mention of either Sun or StarOffice!
The Sun site says at one point "Free to education" and at another "We do offer educational site licences". These are not necessarily contradictory, of course: it seems from elsewhere that educational site licences are free.
Does anyone have any further information concerning UK suppliers of
a) the CDs b) licences, if they are necessary b) documentation, other than what's on the site - e.g. books
I have to decide on openoffice.org vs Staroffice, and get it going before my current SO6 dies, which I think is going to be June 3rd.