StarOffice 6.1 beta is mirroring the developments of the OOo beta program. But the only reason to use SO over OOo (IMNSHO) is the Lotus filters and the integrated UK spellchecker... -----Original Message----- From: ian To: Dave Williams Cc: Suse Sent: 6/8/03 11:32 AM Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] StarOffice On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 09:37, Dave Williams wrote:
What is the relationship between StarOffice and OpenOffice?
I've searched the Sun site for details without success. Both of them are going through beta stages and I thought they both originated from StarOffice 5.1. Are they still linked and if so how?
Same code base. Star Office 6.0 is 99% the same as OO.org 1.0. It has some proprietary additions such as a Wordperfect filter, clop art and templates. The way it works is that OO.org is developed by the OO.org community of which Sun plays a major role - they provide the hosting for the OO.org web site and programmers to work on OO.org development. Other volunteers work on different projects eg marketing, CD-ROM distribution, quality assurance etc. OO.org has regular releases, there has been 1.01, 1.02, and 1.03 is the current stable release. 1.1 is now in beta2 and has more substantial changes such as PDF publication, faster operation etc. Its very likely that when 1.1 is considered stable Sun will use it as the basis for Star Office 6.1 which will again have differences in respect to utilities and say clip art but fundamentally the same code.