“Got your eye on Microsoft Office 2000? Look again: New licenses
will run you nearly $400 just for the Standard Edition, which
includes only Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.”
“Are you a potential Linux desktop user, but you’re afraid of
the added system- administration chores and worried that you can’t
find an Office suite that will allow you to exchange files with
Microsoft Office?”
“StarOffice 5.1 from Star Division Corp. can solve two of these
problems. It acts almost like a clone of the Microsoft suite, and
it runs on Windows, Linux, and Sun Solaris systems for less than
$175 per copy. (Sorry, but it can’t solve the Linux
system-administration issues.)”