StarOffice
RSS StarOfficeUp to 6,000 to go as Sun restructures
News Dave Douglas will lead the Cloud computing group, which will include Network.com, the NetBeans developer platform, and the StarOffice portfolio. Sun Microsystems announced on Friday a restructuring that involves layoffs... [14 Nov 2008]
KDE Case Study: Banco Continental SA
White Paper Linux, combined with KDE, ssh, rsync, coda, staroffice, and others allowed this bank to never have to use the traditional operating systems. Banco Continental SA is a bank with 15 branch offices in a 400km radius. [25 Apr 2007]
Munich finally flicks the Linux switch
News In the UK, Birmingham City Council is trialling open source desktops, while Bristol Council is deploying StarOffice. The city of Munich has finally started to migrate to Linux on the desktop, a year later than planned. [26 Sep 2006]
OpenOffice patches trio of holes
News The vulnerabilities also affect StarOffice 6.x, 7.x, and 8.x.and StarSuite 7.x and 8.x, according to security company Secunia. StarOffice and StarSuite are Sun's commercial office software offerings,... [05 Jul 2006]
Massachusetts officials scrutinise decision to go open
News There are commercial products that support or will support OpenDocument, including Sun Microsystems StarOffice, IBM's Workplace and the open-source product OpenOffice. Massachusetts state officials have criticised a... [02 Nov 2005]
Google to push OpenOffice brains
News OpenOffice has its roots in Sun Microsystems' StarOffice suite of programs. Google plans to hire programmers to improve OpenOffice.org, a demonstration of its affinity for open source initiatives and one the company... [01 Nov 2005]
Google and Sun get together for desktop apps
News Sun has the open source OpenOffice.org software suite and its close relative, StarOffice. One person who was possibly an influence on the change is Joerg Heilig, who for years was director of engineering for... [04 Oct 2005]
Trial aims to explode open source 'risk myths'
News Other projects with government support include Bristol Council's move to put StarOffice on 5,000 Windows desktops. We already have a people's network using SunRay terminals, so staff and customers are used to using... [17 May 2005]
Japan is land of rising Sun
News JDS is a suite of open-source office desktop programs that includes the Linux operating system and the company's open-source StarOffice suite. Sun also sells versions of JDS for its Solaris operating system, and... [11 Nov 2004]
Police use Linux to comply with Freedom of Information
News Central Scotland police is already a big open-source user with Linux servers, Linux-based email clients and Sun's StarOffice software. A Scottish police force is extending its commitment to open-source software by... [05 Nov 2004]
Sun backs EU push for Office document interoperability
News In a recent letter to the European Commission (EC), Sun President Jonathan Schwartz said he agrees with a recommendation by the EC's Interchange of Data between Administrations (IDA) unit to establish the format used by OpenOffice.org,... [01 Oct 2004]
5 years ago… Insurance giant goes live with Linux
News The UK government is running several trials of Sun's StarOffice and IBM's Linux systems with a view to larger framework agreements for the public sector if successful. 06.08.1999: In what is being hailed as the world's... [06 Aug 2004]
BOC CIO Peter Dew
Comment Linux, however, is very much on the IT agenda for Dew with a lab running everything on free shareware and a 65-user trial of StarOffice in India. The headquarters of FTSE 100 industrial gases firm BOC suddenly appear... [05 Aug 2004]
StarOffice snags major Canadian customer
News Sun Microsystems has recruited one of its biggest customers yet for its StarOffice software, signing a contract with the Ontario Ministry of Education covering 2.5 million students. All will be licensed to use... [08 Jun 2004]
Sun upgrades Linux desktop offering
News Sun gave desktop Linux a major boost by making its Microsoft Office competitor, StarOffice, into an open-source project called OpenOffice. Sun Microsystems will today release the second version of its Java Desktop System... [01 Jun 2004]
