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Presswire: Sun Microsystems’ ‘StarPortal’ initiative captures broad industry support

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 1, 1999

“Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) earlier today announced
the next stage in portal computing with its unveiling of StarPortal
(see separate release), a major initiative to provide word
processing, presentation graphics, spreadsheet and other office
software tools to any web browser and eventually portable devices.
It is based on the award-winning StarOffice software suite
technology Sun acquired in its recent purchase of privately held
Star Division Corporation of Fremont, California in August. Sun is
receiving broad industry support from key Internet Service
Providers, software developers, Internet outsourcing companies and
others in this effort to use StarPortal in accelerating acceptance
of the network services model.”

“Service Provider Partners”
AT&T…
AOL…
Bell South…
Corio, Inc. ..
Earthlink…
Engage
Fujitsu, Ltd. …
Frontier Corporation…
GTE…
Interpath…
The Learningstation.com…
Liberate Technologies…
netASPx…
OpenTV, Inc. …
Oracle Corporation…
PenTeleData, Inc. …
Portera Systems, Inc. …
Scientific Atlanta…
U S West…

“Linux Partners”
Caldera Systems, Inc. …
Linuxcard, Inc. …
Red Hat…

“End User Partners”
Riverdale School District…
Pennsylvania State University…
VA Research [VA Linux Systems]…


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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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