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Is StarOffice Ready To Take On Office?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday September 5, 2001 @07:54AM from the should-it-even-battle dept.

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 by szcx · 2001-09-05 07:56 · Score: 4, Funny

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 by zpengo · 2001-09-05 07:57 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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It's already there by fobbman · 2001-09-05 08:04 · Score: 4, Funny

"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.