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Sun expands StarOffice giveaway | |
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| Time: 09:01 EST/14:01 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Sun Microsystems will give away its StarOffice software to ministries of education in Europe and Africa, the company is expected to announce Tuesday, in an effort to undermine rival Microsoft. "Sun is committed to giving the global education community access to the StarOffice productivity suite at no cost," Kim Jones, vice president of global education and research, said in a statement. If each copy of the software were purchased separately, the value of the deal would be more than $5.7 billion, Sun plans to announce. | ||
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| #1 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 9/17/2002 12:27:08 PM |
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FinancialWiz - So Microsoft was going to give some software to the University of Waterloo so that they could teach classes using C#. This was evil.
Yet when Sun does the same thing it's not evil? Why is that? |
| #2 By 3653 (63.162.177.140) at 9/17/2002 12:36:21 PM |
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sodablue, "Yet when Sun does the same thing it's not evil?"
Because they hate the success of Microsoft. Plain and simple. Everyone always likes to pick on the smart kid (Microsoft). But we all know that the smart kid always wins in the end. |
| #3 By 3653 (63.162.177.140) at 9/17/2002 2:45:14 PM |
| bluesky, i would argue that just as many have migrated from StarOffice over to MSOffice. But those don't make the headlines. |
| #4 By 1845 (12.254.162.111) at 9/17/2002 3:21:53 PM |
| FinancialWiz, the differnece between Microsoft spending 150 million in New Orleans and Sun spending 5.7 Billion is rather substantial. Sun is losing 50x the money that Microsoft is losing. Further, Microsoft is currently profitable and has more than 50 billion in reserve. Microsoft can afford some stupid investments, Sun cannot. Kevinu's reasoning is quite sound. Let's remember that while Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows make the company billions, Star Office doesn't make money for Sun. |
| #5 By 135 (24.163.225.142) at 9/17/2002 7:05:35 PM |
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hellyon - Go read up on the Authorized Academic Java Campus program from Sun.
It's the exact same thing Microsoft was doing. Once again, why is it evil for Microsoft but acceptable for Sun? hypocrites. |
| #6 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 9/18/2002 10:28:55 AM |
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FinancialWiz - When did you say it wasn't evil? In your second sentence you still continue to imply it is wrong for MS to do this.
If you're looking for Sun news you might try solariscentral.org. |
| #7 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 9/18/2002 1:02:55 PM |
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FinancialWiz - I already know Sun and MS use the same tactic... that's my point.
Looks like you are just trying to start an argument. Leave that to sodajerk instead. :) |
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