Re:StarOffice vs. MS Office 2000 (Score 1)

I am a software consultant and my current assignemnt is at a large army base in Texas. The Army has lots of UNIX workstations from a number of vendors. The best thing about Star Office is that it runs NATIVELY on so many of them! One current generation of systems relies upon the Windows Application Binary Interface (WABI) and Microsoft Windows 3.1 with Microsoft Office 4.0. They cannot upgrade since all of the current upgrade paths assume an X86 architecture or, at a minimum, the availability of an X86 add-in card. Neither solution set is feasible for the units which own these systems. Because of the architectural and financial constraints, Star Office is a God-send for them, regardless of any bugs or stability issues. It is still better than what they currently have.