[KLUG Members] templates for openoffice and where is staroffice 6??

Bryan J. Smith members@kalamazoolinux.org
30 Apr 2002 01:00:20 -0400


On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 19:44, Bruce Smith wrote:
> This was on slashdot today (I haven't tried it yet),
> but this is a new Office package based on OpenOffice.
> I don't know if it has a better selection of templates
> and graphics, but it might be worth a look:
>   http://www.sot.com/en/linux/soto/

*THIS* is why I _love_ Sun!  In LGPL'ing StarOffice, they have created a
"standard library" that will "unify" all the commercial and free office
suites.  Within a few years, all major, non-Microsoft applications will
import/export, if not use natively, OpenOffice formats.

They've screwed up Java and a host of other things, but they got their
Office suite strategy down perfectly!  Way to go Sun!

-- Bryan

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