StarOffice 8

Small & Medium Businesses

StarOffice 8 gives you a clear cost advantage in a complete office productivity suite that's compatible with Microsoft Office and other applications.

Features

A Complete Productivity Package
StarOffice 8 software delivers full-powered word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database capabilities. You get a lot more than you pay for compared to other packages.

Tools Your Employees Will Use Every Day
Your staff will be able to create professional multimedia documents, collaborate with each other, and share information with your customers and suppliers. Its handy resources include dictionaries, a thesaurus, fonts, clipart, and a library of document templates.

An Easy-to-use Database Tool
Extend the analytical capabilities of your business with the StarOffice database tool, Base. It has helpful wizards that guide users, with no formal database training, to access data and create forms, reports, queries, tables, views, and relations.

Enhanced PDF Export—Included FREE
Don't pay extra for this important feature! You could pay $399 for full PDF export functionality in a separate application. But it's built into StarOffice 8 software, and it lets you communicate with a broad range of users through PDF documents.

Low cost
With volume pricing as low as $35 per RTU license, StarOffice 8 Enterprise Edition delivers enhanced productivity at roughly one-fifth of the cost of Microsoft Office.

Easy Availability
StarOffice 8 is available at many retail and online stores throughout the United States. You can also purchase it immediately from Sun's Web site.

StarOffice Migration Tools
StarOffice 8 for enterprises comes with 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 them to StarOffice macros for use by StarOffice users.