News.com is talking about how StarOffice is looking more and more viable. What most people really want isn't dancing paperclips, but the ability to read the world's de facto document interchange formats: Word and Excel:
Many enterprises use the same version of Office companywide to standardize desktops. However, enterprises now realize that most workers consume information but don't create it, so they don't use more than 20 percent of the features in Office. At the same time, changes in Microsoft's license policy could force some customers to pay twice as much for the next version. Enterprises looking for alternative suites may eventually find one in StarOffice 6.0, which will likely become available in the second quarter.
I'm counting the days until someone comes up with the story that users will soon pay less to have fewer features in an office suite.
