[ Thanks to Con
Zymaris for this link. ]
“The temperature is rising between Sun Microsystems and
Microsoft in the battle for the hearts and minds of desktop
software users.“Sun has signed a deal with the Northern Territory education
department to provide its StarOffice package of desktop
applications–a direct competitor to Microsoft’s Office
software–to nearly 7000 users: 4400 secondary students and 2500
teachers.“It is Sun’s largest single licensing arrangement for the
software in Australia since the company began targeting the desktop
market a year ago…”