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To: Mephisto who wrote (18236)	7/27/1999 11:35:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

The knock against StarOffice on Linux is it's speed. It's slow perhaps even beyond it being a memory pig, but I don't know first hand. I've not installed it. The Linux version was apparently ported from Win32 code with a kit. I've not read anything about Solaris StarOffice performance wise. There is a new version out. Chances are that they'll be a cleaning up of the code and doing a version 6 (w/ XML?) for the desktop shortly after Sun acquires it, but I think the Big Kahuna is the Java version, specifically the Java Star Office Server. Apart from the Java version/suite, the StarOffice desktop for Solaris may be a very nice thing to have (as Eric S mentioned) bundled with the OE. It goes beyond being an office suite and is almost a window manager in itself. On what kind of machine (+ how much RAM) is your husband running StarOffice? -JCJ