John Foster wrote: > Uhmmmm. It was already free, in the dollars and cents manner. They > really gave back/up nothing.
I think they give an impression: from now on, StarOffice is supported by Sun. >The only thing is that they can now turn it > into a sun proprietary thin client to run on their servers, Sun is giving away StarOffice for Linux, right? I think it doesn't matter if there's a proprietary version of it. >and voila' > instant network office suite that really will compete with MS Office 2M > for NT/WIN 2M. Unix community at large can take advantage of it; look, now is the beginning of time where M$ Office has a worthy opponent (or contender if you like). If Sun can make NCs real, why not? Oracle has been touting NCs for quite a while, but they (the NCs) are still somekind of vaporware. I don't know what makes the delay (slow progress); maybe Oracle's NCs need to run Linux. BTW, M$ would have some difficulties in supporting NCs; NT is not multi-user. I believe that if you want to compete with M$ (in terms of the number of office-suite seats), NC is the battlefield. Oki -- It's a small box, not unlike our other network computers except this has a CD-ROM in it and on the CD-ROM it has Linux and Netscape and some other things. Larry Ellison on NCs