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Montag Juni 27, 2005

Affordable laptops with StarOffice at six universities
"All laptops are powered by Intel microprocessors and come with Sun Microsystem StarOffice, which features word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database capabilities."
The full article can be found here.
( Jun 27 2005, 09:13:26 PM CEST ) Permalink

"Sun opens more middleware source"
"Company president Jonathan Schwartz said that in opening its code, Sun would create a community of developers using the APIs in products. Tackling the whole concept of Free Open Source Software (FOSS), Schwartz said his 'bias' is towards the 'free' aspect of the equation. "The most popular FOSS products in the world are free," he said, highlighting OpenOffice, Mozilla, Firefox and Linux.

"There is a social utility to free software," Schwartz said.

Less clear, though, was how Sun will turn its code giveaway into revenue. Appearing at JavaOne, Sun chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) Scott McNealy said simply it would be easier for Sun, along other Java community members, to make a little money on a lot of people in a large community than to monetize a small community."

The full article can be found here.
( Jun 27 2005, 06:59:52 AM CEST ) Permalink