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InfomaticsOnline: Sun Urges UK Schools to Try StarOffice

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 16, 2003

“Over 400 schools have registered for a free StarOffice licence
in the past three months and Sun Microsystems claims that if every
school switched from Microsoft Office they would save
£48m.

“Around a third of those that registered have now decided to do
a wider rollout of the software.

“Sun estimates that one to two per cent of UK schools currently
use the StarOffice suite, and suggested that the push could
increase the figure to 20 per cent within 18 months…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

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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