Introduction
StarOffice 7 Office Suite is the latest version of Sun's award-winning office productivity suite. StarOffice software is a full-featured, multiplatform office suite with word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics and database applications. |
Product Components
StarOffice Writer A powerful tool for creating professional documents, newsletters and brochures. You can easily integrate images and charts in documents, create business letters and extensive text documents with professional layouts, as well as create and publish Web content.
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StarOffice Calc A sophisticated spreadsheet application with decision making analysis tools for performing advanced spreadsheet functions and data analysis. In addition, charting tools generate impressive, high quality 2-D and 3-D charts.
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StarOffice Impress A tool for creating effective multimedia presentations. Includes 2D and 3D clipart, special effects, animations and high-impact drawing tools.
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StarOffice Draw A powerful graphics application that enables the creation of dynamic 3D illustrations and special effects as well as saves them in a variety of common graphics file formats.
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StarOffice Base A dynamic data source management tool allows you to connect, administer and access a wide range of data sources (including dBase and SQL) directly from StarOffice.
StarOffice database functionality is provided by Software AG's Adabas D.
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Supported Languages
StarOffice 7 Office Suite is available in the following languages:
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StarOffice software is available in the following Asian languages
under the name, StarSuite 7 Office Suite:
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- Simplified Chinese
- Traditional Chinese
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Localization
StarOffice 7 software is proud to bring office productivity functionality to the Asian market with complete unicode support and extensive Asian language support. The productivity suite now supports Asian languages, including Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
System Requirements
In order to run StarOffice 7 software, users must have desktop systems that meet the requirements for their platform of choice: Solaris Operating Environment (SPARC or x86), Linux, or Microsoft Windows. Documentation
StarOffice 7 Collection, English
White papers
This guide will assist IT decision makers who are moving their organizations off Microsoft Office to the StarOffice 7 desktop environment. Upgrading to a new system requires thorough preparation. Planners should take a close look at their company's current workflow and decision-making dynamics, and how they may be impacted by the move. The objectives and timing of the migration project should be clearly articulated. The overall goal is to migrate all necessary files and applications safely and efficiently to the new desktop environment.
http://wwws.sun.com/software/whitepapers/staroffice/SO7Migration_wp.pdf
The StarOffice software configuration concept helps system administrators maintain configuration items employed by the various StarOffice applications. It provides administrators with a powerful configuration function while helping to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
http://wwws.sun.com/software/whitepapers/staroffice/SO_Config_wp.pdf
This report gives a detailed cost of ownership analysis of open source technologies, specifically StarOffice and OpenOffice.org as completed by the Danish Board of Technology (part of the Danish government). The report shows the significant cost savings that can be realized with a switch to StarOffice and OpenOffice.org. Also explored in this report are the needs and benefits of an open file format like XML, which has been used by StarOffice/OpenOffice.org since 2000. http://wwws.sun.com/software/whitepapers/staroffice/Open_Source_050803_v4.pdf
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