Sun Microsystems has announced the availability of StarOffice 9 and its Asian language counterpart, StarSuite 9, which have new versions of word processor, presentation, spreadsheet, database and drawing software. <\/p>\n
This update to Sun’s productivity suite comes with native support for Mac OS X, delivers significant enhancements and provides advanced, extensible productivity tools for all users, the company says.<\/p>\n
With Mozilla’s Thunderbird e-mail client and Lightning extension for calendaring as part of its distribution, StarOffice 9 software aims to provide a simple, comprehensive solution for businesses of all sizes, from SMEs to large enterprise customers. <\/p>\n
The suite is said to include extensions that make it easier to perform common tasks, such as editing PDF files, creating reports, blogging, and publishing wikis. <\/p>\n
Additionally, Sun Services can provide enterprise tools to assist customers who are migrating from Microsoft Office to StarOffice 9, the company adds.<\/p>\n
StarOffice 9 is said to be completely open-sourced, with the same binaries as OpenOffice.org 3.0. <\/p>\n
Many new features, multiple page editing in Writer, an optimisation Solver tool and 1024 columns in Calc, native table support in Impress, and effective handling of poster-size graphics in Draw, are intended to increase productivity and to make StarOffice 9 very easy to use.<\/p>\n