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>Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:17:41 -0600
>From: Derek Roff <[log in to unmask]>
>To: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: FW: #6840.1 OpenOSX products (!)
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>> Has anyone had any experience with the products sold by OpenOSX?
>> They  offer EXTREMELY cheap software purporting to be
>> alternatives to Microsoft Office
>> and Photoshop for Mac OS X  ($45 for a CD with both programs).

Sun Microsystems has made StarOffice available to education for the
cost of media and shipping.  It reads and writes in MS Office
formats, so sharing files is seamless.  Several platforms are
supported.

http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/6.0/

OpenOffice, in some senses an extension of StarOffice, adds other
options to the same core:

http://www.openoffice.org/

A version of OpenOffice is available for Mac OS X.

These options might meet your needs.

Derek

Derek Roff
Language Learning Center, Ortega Hall Rm 129, University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131  505/277-7368 fax 505/277-3885
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