StarOffice 8

StarOffice 8 Office Suite is a complete, feature-rich office productivity product that's available for approximately 75% less than Microsoft Office 2007 Standard Edition. It includes powerful programs for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, drawing, database, graphics, and Web publishing. Its user interface is intuitive and easy to use, plus it is multi-platform, available on the Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms as well as the Solaris Operating Environment. StarOffice 8 supports 16 languages.

Yes, StarOffice is a complete office productivity suite that is fully compatible with other office productivity suites. Keeping in mind that each organization has its own requirements, many will find StarOffice an affordable alternative to Microsoft Office.

StarOffice software provides the functionality to meet the day-to-day office productivity needs for users in homes and businesses of every size.

There is a lot that is new and exciting in StarOffice 8 including better compatibility with Microsoft Office, a redesigned presentation tool, and a new database tool and Draw. Learn more about What's New in StarOffice 8.

StarOffice 8 software costs much less than competing desktop productivity suites. Customers receive a savings of up to 80% compared to other suites.

StarOffice 8 Office Suite will be available through worldwide retail outlets (Best Buys, CompUSA others), E-tailers like Amazon, and from Sun's Web site as a fee-based download. Select PC and software OEMs, In addition, new Sun hardware will come pre-installed with the StarOffice 8 software For enterprises, the StarOffice product will be distributed through Sun Global Sales Organization, which includes all Sun direct sales and Sun master resellers.

The upcoming StarOffice 9 release will fully support the Mac OS X platform. Stay tuned until the end of this year.

StarOffice is the brand name marketed in the Western markets only. StarSuite is the brand name marketed only in the Asian markets. Apart from the brand name, there are no major functional differences. Sun's StarSuite 8 and StarOffice 8 files are interchangeable and compatible. The primary functionality difference of StarSuite 8 Office Suite is the support for Unicode and linguistic support for Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese (Kanji), and Korean.

Schools and educational institutions can receive StarOffice 8 office suite for the cost of media and shipping. For more details visit Sun's StarOffice Education Web site.

There will be an evaluation (time-limited) version available free for download. Please find the download on: http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/get/index.xml#eval

For enterprise customers, Sun offers evaluation kits for StarOffice software. The kit includes a CD containing the StarOffice software, documentation in Adobe PDF format, and a limited use license. Please contact your Sun Sales representative in order to receive the evaluation kit.

There will no longer be a free download of StarOffice on the Sun Web site, but those seeking a free office productivity suite can go to http://www.openoffice.org.

With StarOffice software the license fee is based on users, not machines. A one-user license allows you to install StarOffice software on up to five different machines you operate, giving you the flexibility to run the software on multiple machines, be it at work, on your notebook or at home.

StarOffice 9 will be the first release which supports the Microsoft Office 2007 file format. It will be available in the 4th quarter of this year.

Review our answers to frequently asked technical questions, or submit a support request.

StarOffice 8 introduces a set of tools to significantly lower the cost and time of migrating Microsoft Office users to StarOffice. The migration tools in the StarOffice 8 Enterprise Edition consist of a Professional Analysis Wizard and a Macro Migration Wizard. The Professional Analysis Wizard analyzes user documents to identify potential migration risks, calculates the cost of migration and reduces the costs migration by preparing documents for the move. The Macro Migration Wizard analyzes Microsoft Office macros and converts Microsoft Office macros to StarOffice so those macros can be used by StarOffice users.

No, the Migration Tools are part of the StarOffice product portfolio.

A series of quick reference cards with "how-to" instructions on key StarOffice tasks is available from several publishers. Also, several StarOffice 8 Office Suite user guides and technical manuals can be downloaded from Sun's Documentation Web site

The StarOffice Enterprise license uses the Right To Use (RTU) license. One RTU allows a user the right to install up to 5 copies of StarOffice software on systems they operate in any of the supported languages and on any of the supported platforms.

No. The RTU does not include any documentation or media. Documentation and media are available separately to ensure that you can order as many documentation sets and media as needed in your organization.

StarOffice does not use a license server to control the number of licenses.

Please visit our Web site at http://www.sun.com/staroffice for more information.