No-Cost StarOffice Licensing for Institutions

eugene ts wong writes: "A while ago Sun announced that it was giving unlimited donation of StarOffice to China's Ministry of Education. Well, it turns out that they announced that they are giving unlimited no-cost licenses for all education and research institutions." Many college students now get drastic discounts on Microsoft Office - but this covers a much broader range, from kindergarten up.

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Excellent, but one issue still for Sun to address:

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Firstly, this is excellent news.

However, one thing that Sun must still address is how to increase their adoption in the corporate sector.

The reason why colleges are requested to stock Microsoft Office is that is what the businesses use to whom they are applying for jobs.

My last university, McMaster University used to stock nothing but Corel office (cheaper, helped to support a local business), but in about 1997, they bowed to student pressure to replace it with MS Office since the commerce/science/arts/etc students wanted to have the "strong proficiency with advanced Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Access" on their resumes to compete for their jobmarkets.