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The Register: Sun Tunes Up StarOffice Slurpee in Japan

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 16, 2004

“Sun Microsystems is taking StarOffice to the true heart of the
Japanese consumer market–7-Eleven.

“Next month, Sun’s open source productivity suite will be
sitting alongside Ho Ho’s and Ding Dongs, as part of a large
StarOffice rollout across Japan. Sun has teamed with distributor
SourceNext to sell StarSuite–the Japanese version of
StarOffice–at up to 15,000 retail locations, convenience stories
(7-Eleven) and book stores…”

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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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