Sun to push StarOffice for Apple's OS X
Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems are cooperating on a version of Sun's StarOffice productivity software for Mac OS X, the companies said.
Sun has been looking for hardware allies in its long-running quest to popularize StarOffice, which competes against Microsoft Office. To date, no major PC makers have pledged to heavily promote StarOffice.
Apple also gains a friend to help counter its increasingly contentious relationship with Microsoft, which has been struggling with sales of its Office v. X suite for Macintosh. Microsoft expected to sell 750,000 copies of the software; since its release last November, only 300,000 copies of Mac Office have sold. [CNET]
So, Microsoft has threatened to cut off Apples air supply in the past, and here we are witht he 5 year agreement having run out. If you're Apple what do you do? This could either be a great safeguard move, or the next salvo in what could become a very ugly war. If Apple does this and then moves into the x86 space, hmmm...mj
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