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Sun's Free StarOffice Suite Surpasses One Million Downloads in Two Months,
Nov 09, 1999 11:07 EST |
NewsAlert: Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced today that more than 1,000,000 copies of StarOffice(TM) 5.1 software have been downloaded in the nine weeks since Sun introduced this product line to the market and announced the purchase of the privately-held Star Division Corporation of Fremont, California.
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| Performance Computing: Starry-Eyed StarOffice, Nov 07, 1999 11:39 EST |
"After the dust settled, and I had time to reflect, I realized I was wrong about StarOffice being the most important news of 1999. And I pray I'm not right about StarOffice changing the way we approach Web-centric computing."
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LinuxPR: Applixware Office for Linux Wins Linux Magazine Cool Product Award,
Oct 29, 1999 19:31 EST |
"Applix, Inc. the leader in Linux application software today announced that Applixware Office for Linux 4.4.2 has won a Linux Magazine Cool Product Award."
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| StarOffice chief: Why Sun community source beats GPL, Oct 16, 1999 09:20 EST |
The Register: Sun's Community Source Licence (SCSL) model has come under fire from the open source community as an unsatisfactory halfway house, and quite possibly a trap at that. At Sun, StarOffice founder Marco Boerries is the one who's most obviously in the firing line in this area, and speaking in London yesterday he took it on the chin, and explained why he thought that the Sun approach beats GPL in the long term.
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| TechWeb: Sun Commits To Star Desktop, Preps Portal, Oct 14, 1999 16:53 EST |
"Sun is to release an update to StarOffice that would let users easily transfer data to Web-hosted StarPortal services, said Star Office's founder Thursday. "
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| LinuxWorld: Star wars, Oct 06, 1999 20:26 EST |
Joe Barr investigates StarOffice, the cross-platform office suite for Solaris, Windows, and Linux, which was recently acquired -- and will, apparently, someday be open sourced -- by Sun Microsystems.
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| PC Week: StarOffice still an understudy, Oct 04, 1999 20:07 EST |
"Sun Microsystems Inc.'s StarOffice is not about to displace Microsoft Corp.'s Office any time soon, but some IT departments are beginning to evaluate the merits of the upstart productivity suite."
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Applix Partners With Frontline Now! for Linux Channel Distribution,
Oct 01, 1999 13:55 EST |
Linux.com: Applix, Inc., the leader in Linux application software, announced today that it has chosen Frontline Now! to expand the Applixware presence in the retail, catalog, e-tail, corporate reseller and academic markets. Under the agreement, Frontline Now! will use its extensive sales force to promote Applixware Office to distributors and resellers throughout the United States and Canada.
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| Sun's StarOffice catching Microsoft, Sept 15, 1999 12:23 EST |
ZDNN: "In the first week and a half since we launched it, we've had over a quarter of a million people download it for free, said Sun CEO Scott McNealy at an Internet conference organized by International Data Corp."
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Linuxcare and Sun Partner to Deliver Enterprise Services for StarOffice on Linux,
Sept 1, 1999 10:21 EST |
"Linuxcare, Inc., the first company to offer comprehensive Linux technical services to the Global 1000, announced today that it had reached agreement with Sun Microsystems, Inc. to provide a range of enterprise-class services for Sun's recently acquired StarOffice productivity suite on Linux."
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| Sun buys Microsoft Office competitor, Aug 20, 1999 19:26 EST |
CNET News.com: Sun Microsystems is finalizing a deal to buy Star Division, a maker of a software suite similar to Microsoft Office, and it appears that it is off on a second attempt for desktop glory.
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| Andrew - An Open Source Suite, Aug 16, 1999 13:49 EST |
LinuxToday: "Something with a smaller footprint for those seeking suites of apps for the Linux desktop. Check out Andrew (hint, IBM had its hand in the development of Andrew, so its not some hokey backyard dreamjob)"
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Caldera Systems to Provide Applixware Office for OpenLinux,
Aug 10, 1999 18:49 EST |
LinuxToday: Caldera Systems will distribute Applixware Office Version 4.4.2 in their new OpenLinux 2.3 product. In addition, Caldera will bundle Applix' SHELF, a visual Open Source application development toolset and runtime environment, in OpenLinux.
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| Forbes: Your next office suite may be free, Aug 10, 1999 09:25 EST |
You've probably never heard of Star Division. But this small, privately held German company could be the latest thorn in the side of software giant Microsoft...
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| Applix Sets Up Office for Linux, Aug 09, 1999 14:37 EST |
Ecommerce Times: Applix, Inc., through its e-commerce site, has added to the momentum and thrust of the open-source movement, with the release of a new version of its Office Suite for Linux.
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| InformationWeek: Star Of The Office Desktop, Aug 09, 1999 12:48 EST |
"Star Division's Staroffice 5.1 Is A Viable Alternative To Microsoft's Office-The Suite Is Packed With Useful Features And Is Much Cheaper, Too"
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| Applix Announces Applixware Office Version 4.4.2, Aug 05, 1999 18:29 EST |
Yahoo Biz: Applixware 4.4.2 builds on the extensive productivity features of the package, which includes Words, Spreadsheets, Graphics, Presents, Mail and Data. It also incorporates an Open Source Software architecture that enables programmers and developers to access the core Applixware runtime environment.
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| Applix Web-based Office Portal Launches, July 09, 1999 20:17 EST |
ApplixAnyware.com is the next step in using the web for productivity. While hundreds of sites offer email, chat, and other traditional web-based sevices, ApplixAnyware.com is the first to offer office productivity applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, graphics, and presentations through any Java-enabled browser.
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New StarOffice 5.1 Upgrade Improves User Experience and Productivity,
June 30, 1999 20:24 EST |
StarOffice has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides Microsoft Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations, HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions.
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| OS2 E-zine: StarOffice 5.1 - First Looks, June 18, 1999 11:14 EST |
"To shorten our impressions of StarOffice 5.1 to three words: we are impressed. This upgrade for the OS/2 office suite is mostly a showcase of gadgetry, but there is at least one new gadget that's not entirely trivial and would justify the costs of upgrading." (ok, this review is on OS/2, but the product is the same --the ed)
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| Applix, Inc. Announces Creation of New Linux Division, June 16, 1999 13:27 EST |
The new division will work with the Linux and Open Source Software community to source and brand applications. It will also continue to aggressively market, sell and support the Company's Applixware product suite for the Unix and Linux markets.
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| No MS Office 2000 for Linux, June 09, 1999 20:13 EST |
Steve Ballmer spoke out on the popular Linux software, saying the free OS is big on college campuses and among information technology departments as a server platform, but it's not taking off in the desktop market, where Microsoft products are primarily sold. "We have seen no real customer demand for a Linux version of Office," Ballmer told the audience at the formal launch of Office 2000.
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| StarOffice 5.1 is here!, May 19, 1999 21:47 EST |
StarOffice 5.1 was released today and you can download it for peronal use right now! So what are you waiting for?
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| Linux Today: Next Generation of KOrganizer, May 1, 1999 07:33 EST |
KOrganizer-list: developer calls for new effort "The time has come to start the next generation of KOrganizer. KDE 1.1.1 will be out next week, and while I intend to continue to make crucial
bugfix additions and other "no brainers" to the KDE 1.1.1 tree (which will likely be released as KDE 1.1.2 or KDE 1.2 in the summer time), we are done with this source tree. That tree is dead. It is time to begin major work on KOrganizer, driving it into the next millenium, no joke. :) Major surgery lies ahead.
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