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To: Paul van Wijk who wrote (11944)9/16/1999 5:43:00 PM
From: The Duke of URL©  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 19079
 
>>>But since last month Sun offers Star-Office for free as we
know (have no intention to switch from MS-Office to
Office-star, that's not the point).

This means that either MSFT facing pricing pressure on their
biggest cash-cow. <<<<

Humble Second Nephew wishes to respectfully disagree with Honourable European Kunta Kintay:

My opinion, Office 2000 is morphing the MS Office Suite into a front end to be merged with the new NT Windows2000 as the backend. And Whalla.......no more Mr. Hard Disk. :)

This will beat the heck out of a Java solution, at least until everyone has a T-1 line, and maybe even then, too.

Not for a few weeks, though. But Real Soon Now.

That little Billy, maybe he is more of a visionary than some folks give him credit for.

Best Regards,

Duke




To: Paul van Wijk who wrote (11944)9/16/1999 8:20:00 PM
From: Adam Nash  Respond to of 19079
 
Hopefully not before I get to sell the MSFT I get from the acquisition ;-)

Besides, Sun ironically has a terrible history of providing cross-platform technology. It almost matches Microsoft. Look at JDK - Sun's support of the Mac was so poor Apple had to take it over.

Now I see Star Office, which has no Mac support, and I wonder, when is Sun going to realize that the more cross-platform the world, the better off they are.


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