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U.S. Department of Defense Uses StarOffice

by Dave Murphy
ISSN 1535-3613

Dave Murphy, DGL President & ITrain founder The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) will would install up to 25,000 copies of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice 5.2 software. StarOffice, Sun's open source productivity application suite includes word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and database applications for the Solaris, Windows and Linux platforms.

Not only is StarOffice great software, it's free. DISA won't pay a cent because there's no licensing fee for the application suite.

Dave's Opinion

I'm glad DISA selected Sun's StarOffice over the other competing application suites. It's a great product and it's available for multiple platforms.

I can't wait to tell my wife about this at dinner. She's at Sun's training center this week increasing her knowledge of network system security. Each time she attends a Sun training seminar she comments about how great Sun's training facilities are and the instructional expertise of the trainers. I guess the old adage is true for Sun, if you live a good life, do good work, and treat people nicely, in the end you'll come out on top.

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