Is StarOffice Ready To Take On Office?

A reader writes "CNET has an article about: Is StarOffice ready to take on MS Office? A quote: "Bottom line for Sun and StarOffice: If you keep aiming where Microsoft has already been, then your opportunities will be in China. A better tactic is to take aim at where the IT market is going to be and your opportunities will be much wider.""

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China

[szcx]

Bottom line for Sun and StarOffice: If you keep aiming where Microsoft has already been, then your opportunities will be in China.

Is that a Bad Thing? China is a pretty big market.

Obvious innovations

[zpengo]

StarOffice never even *had* a paperclip. How's that for innovation and wisdom?

It's already there

[fobbman]

"A better tactic is to take aim at where the IT market is going to be and your opportunities will be much wider."

Considering much of the IT market has been laid off in the last 12 months I'd say that giving it away is keeping pace with that. The only way they could do it any better would be to provide CD's of StarOffice at the local soup kitchens.

Re:Microsoft's Real Competition - Itself

[sharkey]

That said, Office 2000 and XP seem to offer no real advantages/features what-so-ever over good old '97.

Office2000 had a much improved feature that had MY lusers drooling:

Clippy had acquired a 3D appearance!!!

You could actually hear the exclamation points rattling in their heads.