Sun to push StarOffice for Apple's OS X

Submitted by cel4145 on July 27, 2002 - 09:03.

CNET explains that Apple and Sun will be working together to release a version of Star Office for the Mac by the end of the year. Currently, OpenOffice does have a development version, but it's made to run on X11 instead of the Mac OSX Aqua Platform. The Sun/Apple cooperative would, instead, produce a java-based version of StarOffice, thus customizing it to run on the Mac desktop.

Imagine, a fully functionable office productivity suite which would run on almost any computer platform and offers compatability with Microsoft file formats. A good step, too, towards breaking Apple's dependency on Microsoft for major cross-platform desktop applications. Thanks to Mozilla 1.0's recent release, what exactly would Apple need from Microsoft anymore?

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Re: Sun to push StarOffice for Apple's OS X

Submitted by mecran01 on July 27, 2002 - 09:59.

Isn't StarOffice the one that costs money?

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Re: Isn't StarOffice the one that costs money?

Submitted by cel4145 on July 27, 2002 - 12:25.

Yep. But it's much cheaper than MS Office :)

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Re: Sun to push StarOffice for Apple's OS X

Submitted by cel4145 on July 27, 2002 - 12:31.

seems i've found the answer to your question (see editor's note above).