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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. Sun made the software free just after acquiring StarOffice from...
[October 2, 2001, 17:49]
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]
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]
StarOffice 6.0 review
Reviews With StarOffice 6.0, Sun steps into uncharted territory -- charging money. Also, various Web sites, such as StarOffice.com (not affiliated with Sun), as well as the already-mentioned OpenOffice.org, provide message boards and tools.
[May 20, 2002, 18:19]
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]
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 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 StarOffice is Sun Microsystems' alternative to the dominant Microsoft Office productivity suite, and is based on open-source software, which requires developers to make their contributions freely available to the public.
[March 26, 2002, 12:43]
StarOffice 6.0 beta review
Reviews We predict that once Sun has worked out some of the integration kinks, StarOffice 6.0 will give Microsoft Office a run for its money. Sun makes a big deal about StarOffice's compatibility with Microsoft Office file formats.
[February 12, 2002, 23:00]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Alternatives to Microsoft Office review
Reviews Sun's StarOffice 7.0 is a lesser-known name, but it provides all the basic productivity tools and throws in a couple of extras, such as a drawing program. StarOffice 7.0 If you want to spend the absolute minimum -- that is, nothing -- on your...
[June 23, 2004, 13:40]
SuSE 8.0 arrives without StarOffice
News SuSE included version 5.2 of StarOffice, a Microsoft Office-like package from Sun Microsystems, in previous distributions but decided against including StarOffice 6.0 after Sun began charging fees for the software.
[April 26, 2002, 17:20]
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]
Free office suite coming to the Mac
News However, it has taken slightly more than a year for developers to reach the present stage -- they began in April 2001, when Sun released the StarOffice code under an open-source licence. Sun is also planning to sell version 6.0 of StarOffice in the...
[May 8, 2002, 14:47]
