[lug] StarOffice

[metcalf at attglobal.net]

One hopefully nice feature in StarOffice 5.2 is that they've replaced the
database, the new one may actually be industrial strength rather than the
toy that was in 5.1.  Most of the rest of the improvements are items that
don't concern me, though they may be of great interest to others.
----- Original Message -----
From: "llornkcor" <llornkcor at llornkcor.com>
To: <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 8:45 PM
Subject: Re:[lug] StarOffice


>
> >Sun has just issued an end-of-life announcement for StarOffice
> >5.1 coupled  with a free download for 5.2.
> >See www2.sun.com:80/products/staroffice/5.2/eol.html
> >for details and downloads.
>
>
> wow, I haven't checked it out for awhile... a long while. 105 MB
> download? heh that's take me about a few days...
> No wonder I haven't checked it out. Wasn't it about 8-9 MB when it
> first came out? Or am I thinking about WordPerfect? I believe I
> tried the very first  version of SO, and could never get it
> installed.  ./configure;make;make install didn't seem to help
> much either.  :o)
> Found out it was something about not having enough room in /tmp or
> something, so I just blew it off. I don't really use office type
> software, so it wasn't that important to me. I suppose this could
> be good news for Corel?
>
> Good god, I can't imagine how many lines of code are in that.
>
> LP
>
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