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Taiwan Schools To Enjoy Free StarOffice 6.0
News In a symbolic move to capture the Taiwanese education market from Microsoft, Sun Microsystems donated StarOffice 6.0 to a local university on Wednesday. Although the current sentiment could give StarOffice 6.0 a boost in Taiwan, the launch of the...
[May 31, 2002, 10:00]
Sun Adds Price Tag To StarOffice 6.0
News Sun Microsystems will bundle StarOffice 6.0, its productivity software, with additional services and support to make the package more attractive when it begins charging for the tools next month. The paid strategy is a new one for StarOffice, which...
[March 21, 2002, 13:59]
Sun Releases Beta Of StarOffice 6.0
News Sun Microsystems on Tuesday unveiled the beta of StarOffice 6.0, a streamlined version of the company's free office software that's aimed to gain ground against Microsoft's Office. The new version replaces StarOffice 5.2, which was criticised as...
[October 2, 2001, 17:49]
Sun Releases Pricing For StarOffice
News Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 6.0 will go on sale on 21 May with a price of £52.99, the company will announce on Wednesday, in a more concerted effort by the server specialist to take on Microsoft's overwhelmingly dominant Office.
[May 15, 2002, 10:14]
Sun To Drop Free StarOffice Downloads
News Sun Microsystems is to drop its free downloads of StarOffice 5.2 on Wednesday night, as it ramps up promotional efforts around the fee-based StarOffice 6.0, the company said. In the meantime, Sun and Ximian announced a distribution deal bundling...
[May 27, 2002, 13:33]
MandrakeSoft Clears Up Downloads Confusion
News Linux distributor MandrakeSoft officially announced the availability of StarOffice 6.0 for Mandrake Club members on Monday, making it the first major Linux distributor to offer the final version of the office suite to its users.
[March 26, 2002, 12:43]
Mandrake Linux Download Policy Angers Club Members
News MandrakeSoft finalised version 8.2 of Mandrake Linux on Monday, and became the first Linux distributor to announce that it would include StarOffice 6.0, an office suite from Sun Microsystems that recently instituted fees after several years as a...
[March 22, 2002, 13:39]
Sun Shows New Version Of StarOffice
News Sun Microsystems is showing Linux fans the next version of StarOffice, the most viable competition to Microsoft's Office package, and will release the beta version in October. Sun acquired StarOffice from Hamburg, Germany-based Star Division in...
[August 31, 2001, 8:51]
Free Office Suite Reaches Milestone Release
News The free OpenOffice uses the same code base as Sun Microsystems' fee-based StarOffice. It is the result of 18 months of collaboration between Sun developers and more than 10,000 volunteer developers, which began when Sun donated the StarOffice code...
[May 2, 2002, 13:08]
Sun To Charge For Next StarOffice
News In a move that could undercut its anti-Microsoft campaign, Sun Microsystems plans to start charging for the next version of its StarOffice software, a suite of programs that competes with Microsoft Office but runs on Linux and Solaris as well as...
[February 26, 2002, 10:10]
Open Source Debate Brought To A Close - For Now
Talkback In the largest trial, Bristol city council installed Sun's StarOffice on 5,500 desktops last July, and it has since been moving staff across from Corel WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 (previously used by 60% of staff) and Microsoft Office (40%), a...
[November 20, 2006, 22:59]
Sony Dumps MS Office For StarOffice
News Sun Microsystems announced a deal on Wednesday to install Sun's StarOffice software on some European Sony PCs, marking another defection from dominant Microsoft products. By the end of the year, Sony will include version 6.0 of StarOffice on most...
[December 6, 2002, 7:24]
Sun Seeds StarOffice User Base
News In Australia, Sun is offering educational and non-profit institutions almost unlimited rights to use its suite of office productivity software StarOffice 6.0 for a nominal fee, believing that it will "sow the seeds" for a large enterprise user-base.
[October 18, 2002, 11:58]
SuSE 8.0 Arrives Without StarOffice
News Germany's SuSE said on Friday that the new version of its Linux operating system distribution does not include the latest version of StarOffice because its proprietary, fee-based licence would have increased the cost of the operating system.
[April 26, 2002, 17:20]
Migrating To StarOffice Software From Microsoft Office
White Papers This guide is designed to assist IT decision makers who are considering moving their organizations to the StarOffice 6.0 desktop environment from Microsoft Office 95/97/2000/XP. It gives users the understanding of the Similarities and Differences...
[October 21, 2003, 7:11]
Sun To Give StarOffice Java Flavour
News Sun Microsystems is building a Java-based development kit for its StarOffice software to help corporate programmers customise desktop applications, a move that puts it on better footing against Microsoft's dominant Office.
[November 28, 2002, 7:55]
PPPCD
Downloads PPPCD is compatible with ANY presentation that will run in PowerPoint 97/2000, including presentation created using 3rd party tools such as StarOffice. PPPCD is a FREE system that will let you turn any PowerPoint compatible presentation into an...
[January 10, 2002, 1:40]
Bristol Council Says It Can Save £1m With Open Source
News Bristol City Council has calculated that it will save 60 percent, or more than £1m, over the next five years by switching to Sun's StarOffice, rather than Microsoft Office. The Council estimates that the total cost of StarOffice — Sun's commercial...
[March 30, 2006, 11:10]
Top Ten Stories Of The Year
News Sun's StarOffice 6.0 generated huge interest when it launched last year -- though not as much as when Sun announced that it would begin offering educational and non-profit institutions almost unlimited rights to use its suite for a nominal fee.
[December 27, 2002, 6:10]
Mandrake Defends User Club
News Some members were also upset when, shortly after launching the membership drive last month, MandrakeSoft began offering Sun's StarOffice software only to higher-level subscribers. Some subscribers voiced confusion when MandrakeSoft last month began...
[April 5, 2002, 15:32]
