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Sun and Apple Team Up for StarOffice for Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the victory-is-within-our-grasp dept.

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. Java ? /me cries by unixmaster · · Score: 0, Troll

    Java is exactly like interpreted C++ .
    And what I mean by this sentence ?
    C++ is designed to be a compiled language not for run time interpretation like perl/python .
    When Java developers ripped C++ I think they forgot about that
    Now you know why Java is so bloated....

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  2. sigh... by kevin+lyda · · Score: 1, Troll

    i really hate this. tech announcements that seem good, but then suck.

    apple and sun team up. yeay! to port open office to os x. yeay! in java. oh fuck.

    this is like the os x one. apple switches to unix. yeay! they'll be using the freebsd variant as a base. yeay! they're designing a proprietary gui. oh fuck. and in the end os x came out great, except that it was hard for the ***typical*** end user to gain access to *thousands* of x applications. think where we'd be if apple put their minds to improving x11.

    what is with this urge to do things almost right, but to screw it up in a way that will hurt things in the end.

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  3. Re:Hmmm. by lrichardson · · Score: 2, Troll
    "Do I have to pull the Java version of Wordperfect out of it's grave to remind you of what people are capable of doing? :)"

    There are some serious rumours to the effect that product was deliberately ... how to put this ... less than polisished ... as an attempt to appease M$, who were in 'negotiations' for the 25% (hah!) buy-in.

    That said, I've always prefered WP over Word (OK, excluding that Java pos) ... it's always been more stable, more customizable, generally more powerful, and basically just that much better for the thinking user than Word. I've seen people whacking their computers over 'smart' features built into Word.

    And Star Office retails around ~$80 US hereabouts ... about ten bucks more than I paid two months back for the latest (legit) Corel Suite (WordPerfect, QuattroPro, Paradox, Dragon Speak (still the best voice recognition out there)).

  4. OpenOffice java based? by DuckWing · · Score: 0, Troll

    If OpenOffice for OS X is Java based, I won't be running it on my OS X box, and neither should anyone else.
    I think history (read: corel) has already proven that you shouldn't write desktop apps in Java. Remember the Corel Office written entirely in Java? it sucked, it was slow, it was pathetic, just like Java!

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