The whole strategy of distributing Star Office from an isp sure is
wierd. Office suites have reached most of their utility value as far as
I am concerned. I would sure hate to run Star Office off of a remote
server from a server I have no control over. THink about it. You get
used to using your office suite and suddenly you have to deal with
new features. Personally, I liked word when it was back at version
two. Sun obviously has the beefy servers, so I would sell a server for
corporate environments and run Star Office with the display sent out over
X-windows. If I was sun, I would definitely work on distributing a good
xclient for MS. I was at Mike Machado's place and he had a MS X-client
running. Wasn't that written by some other company. That would be cool
because all you would have to worry about is maintaining the centralized
code on the server.
Perhaps we ought to start the GNoffice Suite project. Funny pun, heh?
Keep ourselve immune from these flakey proprietary software vendors.
Just some thoughts.
brian
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 10:37:51AM -0700, Jason Painter wrote:
> Read this yet?
>
> http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990901/tc/sunmicro_software_2.html
>
> >>> "Brian E. Lavender" <brian@brie.com> 09/01/99 09:23AM >>>
> I don't know how many of you have followed Sun's aquisition of Star Office,
> but it looks to prove interesting. Today's SF Chronicle has an interesting
> article about it. Hmm, I think this is the first article that I have seen
> regarding Sun that hasn't touted some lofty claim about Java. Has the
> smoke cleared? Anyone out there doing interesting stuff with Java?
>
> brian
> --
> Brian Lavender
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