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StarOffice to eat MS share (probably) | |
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| Time: 02:40 EST/07:40 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Alex Harris | ||
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Sun Microsystems Inc's StarOffice office applications suite is expected to wrest a 10% market share of the desktop productivity software sector away from Microsoft by 2004. Technology analysts at Gartner Group predict that Sun has a "slightly better than 50:50 chance" to win a 10% slice of business away from Microsoft, as organizations start to count the cost of licensing changes being brought about with the introduction on August 1 of Microsoft's new Software Assurance renewable subscription scheme. Palo Alto, California-based Sun has been giving StarOffice away free of charge ever since it acquired the software along with its German parent Star Division in August 1999. It has also made the code available to the open source community through openoffice.org. But as ComputerWire reported in February, plans are being readied by Sun to start charging Linux and Windows users of its StarOffice desktop office suite from version 6.0. | ||
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| #1 By 2332 (129.21.145.80) at 5/7/2002 3:52:01 AM |
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That would be quite the feat, considering...
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=701&a=26315,00.asp *cough* |
| #2 By 2332 (129.21.145.80) at 5/7/2002 4:36:08 AM |
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Well, I would certainly recommend using Star Office before I would recommend pirating MS Office.
Star Office does pretty much everything you would want to do, albiet not quite as "smoothly" as MS Office, although that's probably just because I'm far more comfortable with MS Office. Given the option, I would take MS Office over Star Office any day... but cost often makes MS Office not an option for many people. |
| #3 By 2960 (156.80.64.135) at 5/7/2002 8:38:28 AM |
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#9,
Oh, what the heck. We can't have StarOffice opening up corrupted documents now, can we? It's better to throw away the ENTIRE document if it's corrupted. We can always make up for the hundreds, or thousands of man-hours that might have gone into it. No problem. TL |
| #4 By 20 (24.243.51.87) at 5/7/2002 3:10:25 PM |
| Shortly after the announcement, McNealy was seen pointing to the sky saying, "Look! Pigs! With wings! Look!" |
| #5 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 5/7/2002 5:10:16 PM |
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You know what I have to say... "Good for them!"
But I'm sticking with Office XP for now. |
| #6 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 5/7/2002 7:04:12 PM |
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#17 - Oh, it was Gartner?
Oh in that case it will never happen. Poor Sun. |
| #7 By 3653 (65.190.70.73) at 5/7/2002 9:44:21 PM |
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I wonder what will happen to Star Office when Sun declares bankruptcy in 2004? No more support for the *Star*ry eyed among us?
Don't trust a hardware company to write your software. Haven't we learned anything from Apple? Jeez. This post was edited by mooresa56 on Tuesday, May 07, 2002 at 21:44. |
| #8 By 3339 (65.198.47.10) at 5/7/2002 9:52:35 PM |
| What have we learned, mooresa? I don't see either of these companies going away but I see Wintel dependents dying left and right. For that matter Sun and Apple have been around nearly since the beginning. Can't quite say the same for any of the PC companies. And HP/Compaq and Gateway will be dead before Sun and Apple anyway leaving just Dell and Microsoft and Intel to stroke themselves. |
| #9 By 2332 (129.21.145.80) at 5/7/2002 10:41:42 PM |
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#21 - "I see Wintel dependents dying left and right"
Where? Who? Huh? "For that matter Sun and Apple have been around nearly since the beginning. Can't quite say the same for any of the PC companies." IBM - Became IBM in 1924 HP - Founded 1939 Intel - Founded 1971 Microsoft - Founded 1975 Apple - Founded 1976 Compaq - Founded 1982 Sun - Founded 1982 Dell - Founded 1984 Hmm... seems that the other "PC Companies" have been around just as long, if not longer. IBM invented the first PC, Compaq created the first PC clone, Microsoft has been primarly PC since day 1, and Dell was only founded 2 years after Sun. HP is older than all hell, although they really didn't get into PCs until the mid 80's. Not to mention the fact that Intel is a full 5 years older than Apple. Pretty diverse range of dates, but Apple wasn't around the longest, that's for sure. And how long you've been around, especially in the tech industry, isn't a great predictor of future success. |
| #10 By 3339 (64.175.42.106) at 5/7/2002 11:38:38 PM |
| RMD, I'm not saying Apple was around the longest. And I wouldn't call IBM a dependent of MS. So I am referring to Compaq, HP (you don't think these two are doing good things or have much of a prayer, do you?), Gateway, Digitial, Acer, and any other OEMs or system/app providers that are no longer because of the commodity model or Microsoft's embrace and extend. As I said, Dell and Microsoft and Intel are in their own boat. |
| #11 By 4209 (163.192.21.2) at 5/8/2002 12:04:03 PM |
| SodaJerk, once again you are wrong. HPQ will still be kicking Dell's ass in the server market. Dell is only #1 in desktop not server. And remember the servers are more expensive making the company more money, especially in Service Contracts and parts. |
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