{"id":58,"date":"2007-08-12T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rajiniravi.com\/ravi\/wp\/?p=58"},"modified":"2007-08-12T22:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T05:23:00","slug":"staroffice-with-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/staroffice-with-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Staroffice with Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google adds <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/software\/star\/staroffice\/index.jsp\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Star<\/span>Office<\/a> to its <a href=\"http:\/\/pack.google.com\/intl\/en\/pack_installer.html?hl=en&#038;gl=us\">pack<\/a>, its collection of free software. Though Star office costs quite a bit ($69.95), its free with the Google Pack.<\/p>\n<p>Just beware while downloading as it has a huge installer (~140 MB), and  it can be a bit slow during use. Comparison of features between various office apps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zwahlendesign.ch\/en\/22office.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What I am interested though is, Google&#8217;s version of why it didn&#8217;t choose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/www.OpenOffice.org\">OpenOffice<\/a>, the slightly stripped down <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/licenses\/lgpl_license.html\" target=\"_blank\">LGPL<\/a> version of StarOffice.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Note (17th Aug):<\/span> The comparison page link given above compares various office productivity apps. Its pretty old (<span class=\"submitted\">created in May 2005)<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"> and the versions reviewed in there are as of that date. Thanks to the reader for pointing it out.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google adds StarOffice to its pack, its collection of free software. Though Star office costs quite a bit ($69.95), its free with the Google Pack. Just beware while downloading as it has a huge installer (~140 MB), and it can be a bit slow during use. Comparison of features between various office apps here. What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"book_review_cover_url":"","book_review_title":"","book_review_series":"","book_review_author":"","book_review_genre":"","book_review_isbn":"","book_review_publisher":"","book_review_release_date":"","book_review_format":"","book_review_pages":"","book_review_source":"","book_review_rating":"","book_review_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21,44],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-staroffice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/photo-1547139559-c89c59d117611.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravi.rajiniravi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}