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Assalamualaikum,
Artikel dibawah dipetik daripada
http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s%253D1884%2526a%253D16135,00.asp
Bagi yang berminat dengan StarOffice 6.0
boleh melawat laman ini.
http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/5.2/
dan pilih StarOffice 6.0 beta di ruang kiri.
Anda juga boleh hubungi Pejabat tempatan Sun di
http://www.sun.com.my/
Sun Microsystems Malaysia Sdn Bhd
Level 34 Menara Citibank
165 Jalan Ampang,
50450 Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Tel: (603)2116-1888
Fax : (603)2116-1999
Tanya jika mereka masih edarkan CD StarOffice
percuma.
Wassalam.
: )
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October 10, 2001
Users Swarm to StarOffice 6 Beta
By Peter Galli
The brouhaha surrounding Microsoft Corp.'s
new volume licensing plans has apparently been
good news for companies like Sun Microsystems Inc.,
which last week announced the beta release of its
free StarOffice 6 office productivity suite.
Iyer Venkatesan, the product line manager for StarOffice,
told eWEEK in an interview Tuesday that there had been
more than 200,000 downloads of the software from Sun's
Web site over the past week. Some two-thirds of those
downloading the software had indicated on the download
page that they were Windows users, he said.
StarOffice is Sun's open-source productivity application
suite that includes word processing, spreadsheet,
presentation and database applications for Solaris,
Windows and Linux platforms.
While reviewers say it is not yet ready to totally
displace Microsoft Office in the enterprise, an
increasing number of potential users are evaluating it.
See eWEEK Labs' review of the beta,
StarOffice Offers IT Real Choice.
"We were totally blown away by the download numbers.
There were 70,000 downloads on the first day alone;
140,000 over the first three days and more than 200,000
in the first week. To be quite honest, we have been taken
aback by this enormous interest in the product,"
Venkatesan said.
Simon Phipps, Sun's chief evangelist, said in an interview
from Southhampton, England, that there had been three
times as many downloads of StarOffice 6 in the first week
than there had been of the beta version of StarOffice 5.2,
its predecessor, in three months. "There were just 69,000
downloads of Version 5.2 over the
first quarter it was available," he said.
The main reason for the interest in the beta software
was because the office productivity desktop market
had been dominated by Microsoft for so long now.
Corel and Lotus have effectively lost market share and
"users are now objecting to the draconian new licensing
conditions imposed by Microsoft, which requires some
users to pay as much as 80 percent more for their licenses.
"Microsoft has also incorporated an intrusive and burdensome
registration scheme on legal, license-paying users and are
still using closed-file formats that are subject to change.
People see an alternative in StarOffice," he said.
Sun had never intended to compete with Microsoft in this market,
Phipps said, adding that its goal was to provide a
cross-platform tool for the heterogeneous environments
that Sun tended to work in.
"We never intended it to go up against Microsoft and we
still don't," Phipps said. "But a lot of people downloading
the software are evaluating the product and are checking
things like whether it really is Office XP file-format
compatible and are looking at the Extensible Markup Language-based
file format and seeing if it really is full of readable data
that they can process offline."
A number of analysts were also recommending that
corporate IT managers download and evaluate StarOffice 6
given the negativity around Microsoft's new licensing plans.
In addition, many of the downloads were by Linux users wanting
the latest tools and Solaris users wanting the latest version of
the productivity suite, he added.
Venkatesan said that while the final code for StarOffice 6 would
be ready before the end of the year, the product would only start
shipping early next year due to constraints imposed by Sun's
internal guidelines on product releases.
"We are targeting announcing availability of the product in the
first quarter of next year, depending on the language. We will
start with the English and German languages, followed by the
Asian languages and then other European languages," he said.
There had also been a large number of StarOffice wins in markets
like international governments as well as local and federal U.S.
government agencies, but he declined to name them, citing
privacy and security issues.
But in late June, Sun announced that the U.S. Defense Information
Systems Agency would implement up to 25,000 units of its
StarOffice 5.2 software. Sun said DISA would replace
Applix on more than 10,000 of its Unix workstations
at 600 client organizations worldwide.
While there had been more than 5 million downloads of
StarOffice 5.2 over the past year, Sun expected significantly
more than this for Version 6 "if the early interest in the
beta is anything to go by," Phipps said.
"Microsoft is facing an increasing threat from products
like our iPlanet server, whose price we have cut by 37 percent
and which will take out Microsoft's Internet Information Server,
while Office users are defecting to us despite the fact
that we are not marketing to them. Microsoft has no one
but itself to blame for the increasing customer dissatisfaction
with them and their products," he concluded.
Copyright (c) 2001 Ziff Davis Media Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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