Here are the answers to your general and technical questions.
Q:
What is new in StarOffice 9 Server?
A:
New in StarOffice 9 Server is the Software Development Kit (SDK) which is available in addition to PDF Export functionality. The SDK extends the Server functionality to be a document processing engine.
Q:
Who should consider using StarOffice 9 Server?
A:
The StarOffice 9 Server addresses two demands. First the demand for a fast and reliable solution which converts document conversion to PDF and secondly for a scalable document processing solution.
Q:
How is StarOffice 9 Server licensed?
A:
StarOffice 9 Server is licensed on a socket basis. The standard license includes the right to use it on two separate sockets.
Q:
How is a 'socket' term defined?
A:
A socket is a physical location on a computer board onto which a single processor can be mounted. A processor is a chip that contains a collection of one or more cores.
Q:
How fast is StarOffice 9 Server?
A:
This depends on the CPU clock rate, number of cores and disk access performance. Here is an example:
Machine: Sun Fire X4140 with 2 x AMD Opteron 2356/2.3GHz and 32GB memory
Operating System: Solaris 10 OS
Number of StarOffice Instances: 12
Throughput: Converting 48,000 single page documents in 60 minutes.
Q:
Which programming languages could be used for StarOffice 9 Server SDK.
A:
Sun recommends Java, but any of the .Net programming languages are supported as well.
Q:
Which operating systems are supported?
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You can keep using your preferred server operating systems due to fact that all modern operating systems are supported -- Solaris (x86 and Sparc) 10 OS, Linux with a kernel version 2.4 or higher, Windows 2000 (SP 2), Windows 2003, 2008, Windows Vista and Windows XP.
Q:
Which document formats are supported?
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Text documents: Microsoft Office 95-2007, OpenOffice.org 1.x, StarOffice 3.0-5.x, RTF, WordPerfect 11-15, (X)HTML, TXT, MS Word 2003 XML, UOF, T602 Document, Hangul WP 97.
Presentations: MS PowerPoint 97-2007, OpenOffice.org 1.x, StarDraw 3.0-5.x.
Spreadsheets: MS Excel 97-2007, OpenOffice.org 1.x, StarOffice 3.0-5.x, MS Excel 2003, Text (CSV), HTML,SYLK,DIF, RTF, Lotus 123, Ouattro Pro 6.0.
25 different graphic formats, including JPG, PNG and GIF.
Q:
Is the PDF/A format supported?
A:
Yes.
Q:
Are any security related PDF features supported?
A:
Yes. Most of the security related features are supported, such as password protection, restricted permissions to print and use of the clipboard.
