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BW: VillageWorld.com Joins Sun Microsystems’ StarOffice NOW Distribution Program

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 8, 2000

“VillageWorld.com, Inc. (OTC BB: VILW), a national provider of
residential, business, educational, and wholesale Internet
solutions, today announced an agreement with Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: SUNW) to distribute their StarOffice office-suite
product.”

“VillageWorld.com subscribers will soon be able to download the
software from VillageWorld.com affiliated web sites. Ultimately,
StarOffice will link to Sun’s StarPortal service that will allow
VillageWorld.com users to synchronize their files and documents in
a web-based central location facilitating retrieval through a web
browser anytime and anyplace.”

“As we prepare to launch additional Private Label partnership
sites and add VillageWorld.com Franchise sites we continue to
search for value-added products to offer to our users,” said Peter
Keenan, President of VillageWorld.com. “StarOffice is one of
several utility products that we plan on incorporating into
VillageWorld.com powered sites. StarOffice software will also be
installed in our Linux Set-Top Box product as well as on our ISP
launch CD ROM.”


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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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