On 1/11/06, Andrew Fisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I guess there are folks at Sun that read this list -- how about
> making the old Mac version of Star Office available to OS 9 users --
> it would be nice to have something that gives them a solution until
> they upgrade to  OS X.


Sun has no interest in OS X, much less OS 9.  There is no StarOffice for Mac
- at all.  I can't find anything online that says there ever was.  There are
some old stories that Sun was trying it - but those stories are years old.

I don't think Macs are on any kind of a priority list for Sun.  There are
plenty of other things that they are working on before they would get to
that.  And Mac OS X is supported (somewhat) by OpenOffice.org - but not by
StarOffice.  This, to me, proves that Sun isn't interested in Mac - all
they'd have to do is add their StarOffice stuff, and start selling - but
they don't want to do that.  Supporting OS 9 - which very few people have
anymore - is even lower on the list than OS X.

I'd be happy if they got OpenOffice.org to work right on OS X - like
NeoOffice did.

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