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StarOffice Dropped From Google Pack

Posted by timothy on from the stardom-is-temporary dept.

Barence writes "Sun's StarOffice suite has been mysteriously dropped from the Google Pack of free software. The office suite has been axed without any warning or explanation on the Google site. Is Google trying to drive more people towards its own online suite of office applications? Or has it been stung into action by Steve Ballmer's recent comment that Microsoft Office faces stronger competition from StarOffice than it does Google Docs and Spreadsheet?"

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  1. If there's one thing I wouldn't do... by davidbrit2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...It's use the frothing rants of Steve Ballmer as the basis of my business strategy.

    1. Re:If there's one thing I wouldn't do... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      In which case, you're obviously not an office furniture supplier.

    2. Re:If there's one thing I wouldn't do... by lbmouse · · Score: 2, Funny

      When Ballmer talks... people *duck*.

    3. Re:If there's one thing I wouldn't do... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Or a wall repairman.

  2. Re:Well, the important thing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe we at Google like reading your nutty conspiracy theories. Don't stop on our behalf.

    -- Eric Schmidt

  3. Re:Well, the important thing... by Daengbo · · Score: 2, Funny

    I suggest we finger the GNAA guys as responsible for this one.

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  4. Re:Support by fatphil · · Score: 2, Funny

    Loads of support:

    1) There's an email address or telephone number where you make your request for support.
    2) Someone will answer that within 3, or sometimes 7, working days to indicate they've received your request for support.

    What more do you want?

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  5. Re:Why not OpenOffice? by radimvice · · Score: 5, Funny

    [citation needed]

    Anonymous Coward. "Re:Why not OpenOffice?" Weblog comment. 10 November 2008. "StarOffice Dropped From Google Pack." Timothy Lord. Slashdot. 10 November 2008 (http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1023681&cid=25702165).

    Hope that helps~

  6. Re:How were they giving it away in the first place by H0p313ss · · Score: 3, Funny

    How were they giving it away in the first place? If you go to Sun's website and try to download Star Office normally, it's $70. So how was Google able to give it away for free, and why isn't "sun wanted cash" a possible explanation for Google dropping the product?

    Don't bring logic into this, that way leads only to madness.

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