“It has been years since Microsoft had any real competition for
its Office productivity suite–the software package that includes
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Once-popular competitors like
WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 have been reduced to tiny niche
players.“But there is a competing office suite that is the darling of
those companies, software developers and users who have made hating
or battling Microsoft into a sort of religion. It’s called
StarOffice, and is sold by Sun Microsystems, a maker of high-end
hardware and software that is one of Microsoft’s biggest
critics…”