Recommedations

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 10:18 2/18/2004, you wrote:
>Em Qua, 2004-02-18 às 13:03, Rodolfo J. Paiz escreveu:
> > There is also Sun StarOffice 7 which runs on Windows, Solaris, and Linux
> > and which costs only $80 in the USA for the whole package. I've used SO
> > since 6.0 for the last two years and I have been EXTREMELY pleased with 
> it.
> > I just installed SO7 two days ago, but the initial impression is again
> > excellent.
>
>Is it that much better than Openoffice.org that would worth the payment?
>How does it compare to OOo Draw, since they forked from the same thing?

At the point in time when I made my decision, my key software factors were 
the additional languages, dictionaries, spell-checkers, etc. in StarOffice 
(given that I need to speak/write English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French) 
and the greater stability in SO6 than in OO (again, at that time). However, 
a strong and primary factor was that SO is the only decent (and decently 
strong) commercial contender against MS Office, and most corporations base 
most IT decisions around their office suite.

I chose to pay for SO in order to support them and help increase 
competition for Microsoft. I am also attempting to convince small 
businesses with which I have a relationship to move first to SO so they 
have legal licenses for their software, and once they use SO I begin to 
introduce Linux to them as well. So partly it was a software decision, but 
also partly a political/macroeconomic one.

I have not made any recent comparison between OO and SO, since my political 
reasons continue to be valid and I am 100% delighted with the SO product. 
No interest in switching, even to save another $80.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz at simpaticus.com
http://www.simpaticus.com