Re: [PLUG] Star Office Rebate

[<Paul.L.Snyder@gsk.com>]

"Tobias DiPasquale" <toby@cbcg.net> wrote on 01/13/2004 10:10:47 AM:

> On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 09:43, Paul wrote:
> > CompUSA has Star Office 7 for $30 after instant discount and rebate.
Is
> > it worth it compared to getting OpenOffice.org 1.1 for free?

> StarOffice has commercial support. OpenOffice does not. Is support worth
> $30 to you? If so, buy it. If not, don't.

Actually, Sun has announced support for OpenOffice.org, as well.  See:

  http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2003-12/sunflash.20031202.10.html

and

  http://www.sun.com/service/support/software/openoffice/

You do have to pay for the support services, of course.

pls



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