[Am-info] Apple and StarOffice

[Paul Rickard]

    Anyone remember the discussion here a few days ago about replacing 
office:mac when the Microsoft-Apple agreement expires in a couple weeks? 
I said Apple might take portions of StarOffice and incorporate them into 
AppleWorks 7 or start backing SO for the Mac. Well, here's the story.

http://news.com.com/2100-1001-946714.html / Sun to push StarOffice for 
Apple's OS X

"Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems are cooperating on a version of 
Sun's StarOffice productivity software for Mac OS X, the companies said. 
Sun has been looking for hardware allies in its long-running quest to 
popularize StarOffice, which competes against Microsoft Office. To date, 
no major PC makers have pledged to heavily promote StarOffice. .."

"The partnership is expected to produce a Java-based version of 
OpenOffice by the end of the year, followed by a commercial StarOffice 
release sometime in 2003. "

and my favorite part:

"Sun executives, however, say Apple knows what it's doing. "Historically, 
Apple was a little bit worried about working with us because of their 
relationship with Microsoft," Siress said. Now, "Microsoft is mad, and 
Apple's coming at them hardcore.

   Looks like Sun is planning to give Apple source code to work on the UI 
and let the company bundle it for free with their professional hardware. 
Looks like I nailed this one.



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