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StarOffice 5.1 Released

May 20, 1999, 00:08 (7 Talkback[s])

The non-commercial use of StarOffice 5.1 is completely free of charge.

"Star Division follows the needs of the StarOffice users with a completely redesigned product range. Besides the free version for the personal non-commercial private use, further variants are available at a competitive price.

"StarOffice is a fully integrated, Microsoft Office compatible office suite which provides you the proper tools for nearly all tasks. No matter if you write letters or articles with the word processor (StarWriter), create lists with the spreadsheet program (StarCalc) or with the new graphic program (StarDraw) fantastic 3D images - StarOffice is complete and provides you all proper functions. Additionally, a database - powerful and, at the same time, simple to use (StarBase), an impressive presentation program (StarImpress) and an event planer (StarSchedule) belong to the standard equipment. With StarOffice Internet fans can read e-mails and newsgroups, surf in the World Wide Web and also download file from the Internet. Thanks to this completeness, changing from other office suites to StarOffice is simple and absolutely possible. Users can open Microsoft Office files in order to convert spreadsheets, presentations and texts.

"... the following versions are available free of charge: Windows, OS/2, Linux and Sun Solaris."

Learn more and download.