According to Mark Herring, senior marketing projects, StarOffice / OpenOffice, the basic package will cost only $ 20 a year per user, but end-users, this service will be unavailable, at least in the near future. Business can also subscribe to the service later this year.
' The mass distributors engaged in communicating OpenOffice, many companies have already begun to abandon the private office suites in favor of the free OpenOffice, but still one of the weaknesses of this package was the unavailability of qualified technical support ...
Recall that OpenOffice is based on code StarOffice, which was acquired and then released to open source Sun Microsystems. Earlier, he distributed on the dual licensing scheme: under LGPL and SISSL. But the September 3, 2005, Sun Microsystems has announced the rejection of SISSL for all of their open source projects, and the package ever since has only licensed under the LGPL. Both of the above package is fully compatible with Microsoft Office, in its basic functionality of all the packages are roughly equal. The composition of OpenOffice, like StarOffice, is a text editor, spreadsheet editor, and a package for creating presentations.
However, until now only supported Sun StarOffice. However, the Sun reported that the support of OpenOffice, and there is one limitation - the company will not provide the package of legal protection in the event of nomination against him for various violations.
Herring said that at today's weekly downloaded about 1 million copies in the office suite for different operating systems, the total number of users as OpenOffice developers estimate of 110 million people, with a few dozen million people are active users of the package and constantly download updates.
In OpenOffice note that today is the current version of the package 2. 3, the next release, version 2. 4, is scheduled for March 2008. ' It's no secret that a dominant position in the market is Microsoft Office, only a fool would deny it. However, it is also true that OpenOffice is developing faster than ever, and the project has the most promising prospects ' - believes Herring.
The Sun said that the development model of the open office suite involves the creation of third-party modules, including the kernel package. These modules will also be maintained, for which Sun will work closely with developers of third-.
Along with plans to support Sun also provide server software StarOffice 8 Server, allowing for the immediate conversion of about 40 office file formats to PDF. According to the Sun, the new package, which costs 11,000 dollars, is aimed at businesses who need to store large volumes of electronic documents created in different formats.
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