I was there at the confernece too. All I saw was that Sun had a demo of
Star Office and were promoting that they GPL'd Star Office under the
OpenOffice.org site.
If there was anything more than that I missed it.
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:58:50 Vadim Plessky wrote:
> On Friday 27 October 2000 09:17 am, Steve Fox wrote:
> | Vadim Plessky wrote:
> | > On Friday 27 October 2000 02:14 am, Steve Fox wrote:
> | >
> | > This probably means that Helix received OpenOffice sources far
> before
> | > official opening end of October.
> | > May be, in June or July 2000, but not in October. Then 6 bmonth can
> be
> | > January 2001...
> |
> | Actually I said that Sun was doing the demo. They were the ones
> hacking
> | up the bonobo stuff.
>
> That's even more interesting :-))
> Does it mean Sun is going to promote own office suite?
> /read: go againt MS head-tohead? /
> What I know from press and their site, Sun's intention was to sell
> StarOffice
> as server-based office suite.
> And give away personal packages "as is", without significant modification
>
> after their purchase of StarOffice.
>
> Can you give some more details what was presented on this conference? may
> be,
> you have some slides from it? Or screenshots?
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> Vadim Plessky
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