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To: codawg who wrote (29076)	9/2/1999 9:19:00 PM
From: Just_Observing	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Here is another viewpoint on Star Office and its potential effect on MSFT. This article says that MSFT gets 3 billion a year from Office sales. The numbers I have been coming across have been as high as 40% of total revenues (or about 8 billion of the 20+ billion revenues expected in the next 12 months). I really don't know what fraction of MSFT's revenues are from the Office product. But it is clearly a big cash cow. washingtonpost.com Sun has not revealed the amount that they paid for Star Office. Is it such a large amount that they are afraid that it will be badly received? In any case, the Office application market is getting to be interesting battleground. I wonder how MSFT is going to blunt Sun's initiatives.

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