Re: Sun Gives Away StarOffice Applications

ThosStew@aol.com
Sun, 5 Sep 1999 09:06:48 EDT


In a message dated 9/4/99 5:53:39 PM, philipd@strategyventures.com wrote:

>Sun Microsystems said Tuesday it would give away productivity applications
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>following the acquisition of Fremont, Calif.-based desktop software house
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>Star Division.
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>
Interesting. Sun gives away productivity applications; Gateway gives away
online services; Online services give away PCs. It's like the Book of the
Month Club: Agree to buy six books in the next year, and you can have Will
and Ariel Durant's The Story of Civilization absolutely FREE! Or maybe like
beggar-thy-neighbor tariff policies in the 1920s.

Tom Stewart