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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]
Reliance Mutual Lowers Costs With StarOffice and Sun
White Paper At the same time, they were working on a project to identify a set of office productivity applications, and were interested in Sun Microsystems' StarOffice suite of office productivity tools. Since 1911, Reliance Mutual has specialised in the... [27 Sep 2006]
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]
Business Information Firm Changes Productivity Software to Meet Global Business Needs
White Paper For close to two years, Scope used a combination of StarOffice and Microsoft Office 2000 as its desktop productivity suite. However, as business volumes rapidly grew, Scope realized that StarOffice had limitations and was not scalable enough. [08 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, based on the same code as the OpenOffice suite. [05 Jul 2006]
StarOffice 8 Office Suite: XML Based User Configuration
White Paper System administrators can easily administer a StarOffice installation with a simple Internet browser. The StarOffice XML configuration is a logical continuation of the strong XML commitment from StarOffice. [02 Nov 2005]
StarOffice 8 Office Suite
White Paper A migration from Microsoft Office to StarOffice can seem like a challenge for both users and administrators Microsoft Office documents and templates need to be converted to the StarOffice file format, existing scripting and custom solutions need... [02 Nov 2005]
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 decision to adopt OpenDocument... [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 believes also shows sound... [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 StarOffice at Sun but who is now... [04 Oct 2005]
High-Tech Manufacturer Ups Productivity, Reduces Costs by U.S.$100,000 Annually
White Paper The company seriously considered switching to Sun StarOffice to reduce costs but, after a thorough evaluation, decided to upgrade to Office Standard Edition 2003 running on Microsoft Windows XP Professional. [09 Aug 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 StarOffice. [17 May 2005]
Sun Educational Services Empowers Penwith District Council at the Desktop
White Paper Penwith District Council has successfully completed a comprehensive training programme in conjunction with Sun Educational Services (SES), designed to enable the Council's 220-strong team to reap the full benefits of its new Sun Microsystems IT... [26 Jan 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 individual components, such as the... [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 developing a Linux-based system... [05 Nov 2004]
