Star Office 7

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 08:38:39 -0500
Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 04 November 2003 0:53 am, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > I just bought SO 7 from the lindows warehouse. At $30 bucks I figured
> > why not, SO6 works well.  An immediate, and welcome difference, is
> > that it starts up much faster. This is actually important for reading
> > documents on the internet. And, wonder of wonders, it doesn't start a
> > second instance of itself when you click on two documents in the file
> > browser to edit. That was a pain in SO6. And it has a macro recorder
> > as well as an editor. Now, this is progress.
> >
> > Has anyone used SO7? Any impressions? Tips?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joel
> 
> I'd like to know how they can sell it for $30 when Sun is selling it for 
> $79.95 on their web site.

In Sweden at a normal-to-high priced on-line site, it is $50 ($63 with
tax, yes folks, that is 25%), excluding shipping. On Sun's Swedish site it
is $100. No indication of if that includes shipping.

Maybe Sun wants to encourage the distributors? Generally a good thing.


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