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    Fernando Cassia

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  1. Comment - StarOffice 8 Faces Delays, MS Pressure

    (Aug 13, 2005 - 4:22 AM)

    Maybe someone at Microsoft UK was very angry and worked to "convince" the people in charge of Scotland Police's IT department that Microsoft's solution was "much better".

    Unless you live inside a cookie jar, you must know that Microsoft is VERY agressive and in some instances is willing to "give their software away for free" or give alike monetary enticements to make a prominent customer dump alternative software and get back to the MSFT camp. (I've known about this with Lotus Notes customers and MSFT giving them an unbelievable deal to make them switch to Exchange).

  2. Comment - StarOffice 8 Faces Delays, MS Pressure

    (Aug 13, 2005 - 4:17 AM)

    More like $25,000. I think Sun gave business a $50 per desktop deal on StarOffice. When you purchase it at Amazon.com, it's something around $70usd. So even purchasing those SO7 copies boxed at Amazon.com would have costed the police force $35,000 as the highest price.

    I think this article is FUD, carefully spinned by Redmond spin doctors. Just what MSFT's PR department need to "prove" to customers worldwide that their "solution" is much better than Sun's.

  3. Comment - StarOffice 8 Faces Delays, MS Pressure

    (Aug 13, 2005 - 3:55 AM)

    Big deal, 400-PC contract... SO7 still rules

    I don't know why this writer makes a big stink out of Sun losing a "400 machines" customer.

    I find the following paragraph specially amusing, if not laughable altogether:

    "The police force switched 400 Windows-based computers from Office to StarOffice in 2000. However, post September 11, compatibility issues between the two competing office suites caused communications problems, so the group recently signed a 500-computer contract to deploy Microsoft Office 2003."

    So they switched in 2000, and "POST SEPTEMBER 11" they experienced compatibility problems? What does SEPTEMBER 11 have to do with compatibility problems?. Osama and the Twin Towers caused it?.

    I also wonder if the folks at the police force who deployed StarOffice 7 are aware that Sun has RELEASED FIVE PRODUCT UPDATES to StarOffice 7 since the original release, which are available as a FREE DOWNLOAD, and which IMPROVED COMPATIBILITY A LOT, to keep it on par with the updates to OpenOffice 1.x over these years.

    The last update is StarOffice 7 PRODUCT UPDATE 4-02, and dated APRIL 21 this year, available as a free download for existing staroffice 7 users from here:
    http://sunsolve.sun.com/...ice&nav=pub-patches

    In short: this is a FUD article, apparently only intended to make readers wary and skeptical of StarOffice 7, while in fact the v7 release has received numerous updates that solved plenty of the "compatibility issues", and that StarOffice 8 will be, imho, a Microsoft Office killer, both on price/features and the cross-platform (linux, windows, unix) support.

    Ed, please do a better job next time.