David, To be honest, having tried both, there isn't any difference really. I just think management will feel better about it if there is a license to show for it. I support StarOffice because I am a great believer in open standards. Now, MS says that their next Office iteration will be XML based, however, seeing how they "proprietized" open standards like JavaScript (Jscript), I wouldn't hold my breath.
In my experience so far (4 or 5 months), it's powerful enough for the average office user and is a more stable platform for long documents with multiple chapters. Also, XML is native to it. Hope this helps. Lionel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:cms-list-admin@;cms-list.org] On Behalf Of David Neeley Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 7:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [cms-list] Re: PDF/Word document management in CMS Lionel, What is the compelling reason to use Star Office 6 rather than OpenOffice.org? Are there features you find worth the paid version, or is it the support? Personally, I have found the OpenOffice.org free version--especially the latest, version 1.1, to be excellent. The more I use it, the better I like it in fact. I have not yet worked with it enough to be sure I can confidently recommend it as a wholesale replacement for Word in all cases, but it is definitely leaning in that direction! David __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma. -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
