“Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to preview the beta of its upcoming
StarOffice 8 desktop productivity suite, currently slated for
release by midyear, as well as Release 3 of its Java Desktop
System, due next quarter, at the LinuxWorld Conference in Boston
this week.“Herb Hinstorff, a director at Sun, told eWEEK that the Santa
Clara, Calif., company, will be highlighting the expanded device
support in the third release of JDS, which is based on the Linux
2.6 kernel…”