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Sun and Apple Team Up for StarOffice for Mac OS X

An anonymous reader writes, "CNET writes about Sun and Apple getting together to create StarOffice for the Mac OS X." Apparently, the Java-based OpenOffice app will be released before year's end (a developer release went out on Thursday), with a commercial StarOffice release sometime next year.

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  1. Re:Sun's grammar by Abstrakt · · Score: 2, Funny
    Don't you just love those hip marketing folks? A few years down the line, we'll probably see official statements resembling this:

    "We are going to represent old-school," Siress said. "Apple and Sun be homies now," he added.

    Cheers.

  2. Re:Hmmm. by ceejayoz · · Score: 3, Funny

    No! Put it away! It burrrrrrrrrrrrns!

  3. Re:Java is NOT the way to go by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you are so worried about CPU cycles, then only use programs written using an assembler instead of a compiler. There are a lot of those programs out there today... right? :-)

  4. Re:OS X on Intel/AMD last hurdle to World Dominati by RTMFD · · Score: 2, Funny

    but do you think Walmart wouldn't love shipping Wintel platforms with OS X and saving the Windows OS fee?

    In exchange for the Mac OS X fee? Why?

    Dude, quit hogging the Kool-Aid.

  5. Re:The end [for Apple] is near... by repetty · · Score: 1, Funny

    What, again?!