February 12, 1999

Colleges Try Out a Less Costly Competitor to Microsoft's 'Office'

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

The word-processing program in StarOffice works a lot like Microsoft Word. And StarOffice's spreadsheet program bears a striking resemblance to Microsoft Excel.

When it comes to price, though, the similarities end.

A broad site license for Microsoft's software can cost a large college or university hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. The German company that makes StarOffice is selling colleges

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