Google Pack Gets StarOffice
Google has added another program to its Google Pack software suite, StarOffice, Sun’s office software suite that builds extra features on top of OpenOffice.org. StarOffice normally sells for $70, but the Google Pack is the first place you can get it for free, meaning Google pulled a nice string or two for users. Google didn’t use the already free OpenOffice.org, giving them a bit of an older version of the same codebase, but some value added elements and a supposedly more polished suite.
If you’re just looking to get StarOffice for free, this is a good way to do it, since you can de-select the other components of the Pack. If you were looking for an office suite that integrates with Google Docs (for offline editing), look elsewhere, because Google apparently didn’t think of that one. No Google Gears in this version of StarOffice? That’s a shame.
I happened to find out about about one day before you posted about it. I even tried selecting just StarOffice to see if that was possible (and I was quite surprised to see it was). I even went to Sun’s website to check whether StarOffice was still being sold.
Either way, it’s nice to see this, but I don’t need it, and decided not to install it. I’m still using OpenOffice, don’t see why I’d switch to something else.
Comment by Tim | August 15, 2007