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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: JDN who wrote (19059)8/31/1999 3:10:00 PM
From: Sonki  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
sunw buying star..create star wars? nice to sunw up 2.x when naz down.

from cnbc...interview w.scott.

Sun, however, insists it has no interest in competing directly with Microsoft's PC applications. Instead, Sun plans to turn StarOffice into a free Internet-based service -- one that can be run directly by any user with any Web browser without the need to load increasingly large programs directly onto the --
Should Sun's move spark a similar stampede toward free, Web-based office applications, it could pose a major problem for Microsoft, which is believed to derive roughly 40% of its revenue from sales of Office.
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