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.”