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| The Bottom Line | StarOffice 8 is an impressive upgrade of Sun Microsystems' bargain productivity suite. It's a good buy for small and large businesses, but users needing an e-mail program and a photo editor should consider Corel WordPerfect Office 12 Small Business Edition. | OpenOffice 2, the freeware version of Sun Microsystems StarOffice 8, is a great deal for home and small-businesses users who don't mind browsing online forums for tech support. But enterprise users are better served by StarOffice 8. | ThinkFree Office 3 for the desktop is a decent, low-cost alternative to Microsoft Office. Its free online component has more storage and a few more extra features than competing, browser-based services. | The Corel WordPerfect Office X4 suite best fits those who prefer traditional interfaces for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. We found the features rich, but the execution sometimes clumsy. | Although still in beta testing, IBM Lotus Symphony offers strong alternatives to Word, PowerPoint, and Excel with more features and nicer interfaces than most other free software. |
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Linux Solaris Windows |
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8.0 |
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3 |
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Complete package |
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Office applications - office suite |
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Productivity - office suite |
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| Product Description |
StarOffice ( v. 8.0 ) - Complete package |
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( v. 3 ) - Complete package |
WordPerfect Office X4 Standard Edition - Complete package |
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Office applications |
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Office applications |
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Standard |
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Standard |
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1 user |
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1 user |
1 user |
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CD-ROM |
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CD-ROM |
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Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition SunSoft Solaris 8 or later Microsoft Windows XP SuSE Linux Kernel 2.4.0 or later Microsoft Windows 2000 SP2 or later Microsoft Windows 98 |
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Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Microsoft Windows Vista Business Microsoft Windows XP Professional Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition |
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Retail |
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