ZDNet Australia: Sun Wants Local StarOffice Outsourcer | Linux Today

ZDNet Australia: Sun Wants Local StarOffice Outsourcer

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 13, 2005

“All processes around the sale, manufacturing, distribution and
basic support of the new version of Sun Microsystems’ office suite
will be outsourced in Australia to a yet-to-be-appointed local
software publisher.

“That publisher, which Sun expects to sign in three months’
time, would pay royalties to Sun based on units sold and primarily
target the small to medium business market, according to the
company’s local software business manager Laurie Wong…”


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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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