I agree that one of the really big opportunities for Star Office is in higher education, because it is free, reads & writes (most) MS Office-format documents, and (almost) runs on everything. There was a release last week to the effect that Sun is ramping up work on the Mac version, which Star Division had allowed to lag since version 4.0. Higher education is still 30-40% Macs, so a Mac version is critical. Once that's working, then Star Office is a clear no-brainer superior choice to MS Office because of cost, MS compatibility and platform support (Win32, Mac, Linux, Solaris, other Unixes...i.e., everything a campus could need).
Hopefully Sun is pushing this.
Regards,
--QS |
