Re: OT: HP embraces Linux even more

From: Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy (Andrew_No.Harrison_No_at_nospamn.sun.com)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:33:50 +0100

Barry Treahy, Jr. wrote:
> Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy wrote:
>
>> Bob Koehler wrote:
>>
>>> In article <4062868B.FABD2425@istop.com>, JF Mezei
>>> <jfmezei.spamnot@istop.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Seems HP will now start to offer more Linux boxes, including
>>>> desktops to
>>>> ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERS ONLY, due to high demand from enterprise
>>>> customers for
>>>> lower cost servers/desktops. These will not be available to the
>>>> consumer market.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Will they ship OpenOfiice on them? Or are they doing something to
>>> avoid depending on Sun's good will?
>>>
>> What like develop their own Office product ?
>
>
> I believe you are confused, StarOffice is Sun, OpenOffice is GPL.
>

No its you who is confused, StarOffice is OpenOffice plus some
commercial additions. If you look on the openoffice.org web
site you will discover that a very very high % of the owners
of indevidual project streams have @sun.com email addresses
mainly because Sun does most of the openoffice development.

Regards
Andrew Harrison

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