Sun sheds light on OpenOffice strategy
 

*Source: vnunet (http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/22...t-openoffice)*
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Sun Microsystems has vowed to make its free office suite every bit as good as its paid-for offering.

The company plans to give the upcoming version of its proprietary StarOffice suite a virtually identical feature set to that of the free open-source OpenOffice package.

Both products are alternatives to Microsoft Office and are based on the ODF document format, the rival to Microsoft's OpenXML. The two systems have long held similar features and have shared much of the same source code.

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