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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. 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)).