Sun unbundles office productivity suite.

Post #7,323 by brettj 8/31/01 10:29:28 AM Reply	Sun unbundles office productivity suite. What a concept! (: [link\|http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010831/tc/sun_to_break_the_mold_on_staroffice_1.html\| Sun to break the mold on StarOffice] By Stephen Shankland, Special to ZDNet Sun is showing off StarOffice 6.0 which will break these programs into individual applications that can run independently--improving performance and manageability. SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems is showing Linux (news - web sites) fans the next version of StarOffice, the most viable competition to Microsoft's Office package, and will release the beta version in October. Sun acquired StarOffice from Hamburg, Germany-based Star Division in 1999, and has made it available as a free download in an effort to undermine popular programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint that help to keep the Windows operating system dominant. The company also released the source code for the software under the General Public License (GPL), the same license that allows anyone to see, modify and distribute Linux software.
Post #7,401 by static 8/31/01 10:26:54 PM Reply	Sounds good. I'm fairly happy with Star Office 5.2, though it's HTML, RTF and Word 97 exports are a bit broken (and Karsten says it's PS output is really bad). Which reminds me: anyone looked at [link\|http://www.openoffice.org/\|Open Office]? Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #7,425 by tonytib 9/1/01 1:02:15 AM Reply	Demo looked interesting at LWE (& was well attended)
Post #7,568 by kmself 9/3/01 12:45:43 PM Reply	Barely If they've followed the track of OpenOffice, what you've got is: No desktop A shell script that invokes the executable in a specified flavor This isn't unbundling, it's providing multiple points of access. Invoking OO is still tremendously slow. There may be future progress, but it ain't here yet. -- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?
Post #7,569 by kmself 9/3/01 12:48:43 PM Reply	Barely If they've followed the track of OpenOffice, what you've got is: No desktop A shell script that invokes the executable in a specified flavor This isn't unbundling, it's providing multiple points of access. Invoking OO is still tremendously slow. There may be future progress, but it ain't here yet. -- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?

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