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Sun To Give StarOffice Java Flavor

Posted by timothy on from the mmmm-customization dept.

ilovestuff writes "Sun Microsystems is building a Java-based development kit for its StarOffice software to help corporate programmers customise desktop applications, a move that better pits it against Microsoft's dominant Office. The software development kit will be available in the middle of next year as part of a minor upgrade to the business version of Sun's StarOffice 6.0, said Joerg Heilig, director of engineering for StarOffice at Sun."

4 of 54 comments (clear)

  1. I don't really care... by ActiveSX · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...unless this will help me stay up longer so I can finish this paper that was due yesterday.

  2. More viruses by delfstrom · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great, so now virus-writers will be able to create cross-platform office viruses.

  3. Scripting language for StarOffice! by jsse · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sun's StarOffice division intends to make Java a scripting language for StarOffice

    Great, let's call it Javascript.

  4. Re:Java? by silvaran · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh yeah? Well beat this!

    # cat fib.sh
    fib() {
    n=$1
    if [ "$n" -lt "2" ]; then
    echo -n "1"
    else
    first=$(fib $((n-1)))
    second=$(fib $((n-2)))
    echo -n $((first+second))
    fi
    }

    fib $1

    # time ./fib.sh 40
    (it's been 10 minutes and I'm still waiting...)