“Sun Microsystems Inc. will release the first beta of StarOffice
6.1 next week, further heating up the competitive war in the office
desktop productivity market.“News of the upcoming StarOffice 6.1 beta, which is focused on
the corporate and enterprise customer, follows that from Corel
Corp., which on Wednesday unveiled the first beta of WordPerfect
Office 11, expected to be available in North America late next
month…“Sun’s product line manager for StarOffice, Iyer Venkatesan,
told eWEEK in an interview Thursday that the first StarOffice 6.1
beta will be available as a free download for the general public,
but will be limited to 50,000 participants. ‘We are screening
participants in the first beta to make sure all the platforms and
languages are fully represented…'”
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