On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:10:38 +0100
Douglas Hinds wrote:
> Regarding OO and Linux: OO was developed by Sun and Sun's work
> stations don't run MS Windows (at least natively). IOW, OO is in
> it's element with Linux.
>
Aherm, StarOffice was developed by a seperate German company,
StarDivision, innitially and bought by sun in 1999. The source code was
opensourced to create OpenOffice.org in 2000.
Secondly Suns main Operating System is "Solaris" which although a Unix
flavour is not Linux. In fact over time Sun seem to have had a Love/Hate
relationship with Linux as shown by the top 10 Google results for "sun
linux" (duplicate links omitted):
Sun's GNU/Linux Offerings - Overview
Sun's Linux killer shows promise | The Register
Sun eyes alliances with Linux rivals | CNET News.com
SunSolve
Sun Wah Linux {= Not related
Java 2 SDK 1.4.2 Installation Notes for Linux
Sun Versus Linux: The x86 Smack-down - OSNews.com
Desktop Linux: Sun Shines
In fact Solaris competes openly with Linux as it is mostly Open Source
now and available for X86 machines free:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp
Of course OO.o is available as is StarOffice on Solaris.
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs.html
--
Michael
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall
be well
- Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416
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