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CNET Asia: StarOffice Push Intensifies in Malaysia

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 9, 2002

“Malaysia’s education ministry is the latest recipient of Sun
Microsystems’ StarOffice software suite.

“The donation, valued at RM475 million (US$125 million), is set
to benefit 2.5 million students from 9,000 schools, and 500
colleges and universities country-wide, said Sun in a
statement.

“StarOffice 6.0–which runs on Linux, Windows and Sun’s
Solaris–is a set of desktop productivity tools with word
processing, spreadsheet, presentation and image editing functions.
Sun had given an earlier version of StarOffice to education
departments in Selangor and Penang…”


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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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