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Sun.com: Free Office Software on the Web

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 31, 1999

[ Thanks to Nik
Shafiruddin
for this link. ]

“Sun has acquired Star Division, a German software company with
a great office productivity suite, StarOffice…”

“Soon everyone will have access to a full range of office
applications — at no charge. Simply download it…”

“Our aim is to .com office productivity. We are publishing
the StarOffice specifications and will make the source code
available through the Sun Community Source Licensing
program…”

“Longer range, we also plan to provide embeddable software
components that developers can use to add business suite functions
to their online applications.”

Complete
story
.

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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