Google Pack, the collection of applications google recommends is now adding another new application to the family – StarOffice by Sun Microsystem. Questions arise after the announcement, mostly wondering why’s the decision of Google to include StarOffice but not OpenOffice which is build with StarOffice as foundation.

Folks at googlesystem says:

It will be interesting to see why Google didn’t choose to include OpenOffice.org, the primary difference between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org being that StarOffice includes some proprietary components like clip-art graphics, fonts, templates and tools for Microsoft Office migration.

However it doesn’t really matter I guess. StarOffice is actually a $70 bucks application, but with Google Pack it’s free. Make sure you are on a fast internet connection because StarOffice itself is more than 140Mb in file size.