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ZDNet Australia: Sun “Seeds” Aust StarOffice User Base

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 18, 2002

[ Thanks to Con
Zymaris
for this link. ]

“Sun is offering educational and non-profit institutions almost
unlimited rights to use its suite of office productivity software
StarOffice 6.0 for a nominal fee, believing that it will ‘sow the
seeds’ for a large enterprise user-base.

“Non-profit and educational institutions can buy the right copy
and distribute the software to their members for vocational and
personal use for AU$183. Prior to announcing the move a StarOffice
6.0 license package for 500 users would have cost a university or
school AU$71,000…”


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