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List:       opensolaris-discuss
Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] : - (
From:       Calum Benson <calum.benson () oracle ! com>
Date:       2010-09-30 14:45:56
Message-ID: AF57A3C5-8CD4-4F6E-ACF7-F09D7527688C () oracle ! com
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On 30 Sep 2010, at 02:44, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> 
> I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but the update 9 of Solaris 10 has \
> finally switched to OpenOffice.org.  Thus, it seems that Oracle also silently RIP'd \
> StarOffice (actually the decision was already made during Sun's time).  

IIRC, Sun simply decided that it didn't make business sense to give away a non-free \
(as in beer) product, i.e. StarOffice, with a freely-downloadable product, i.e. \
Solaris 10.  StarOffice, now called Oracle Open Office, never went away, and is still \
available to buy: <http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/open-office/index.html>


Cheeri,
Calum.

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