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Articles about sun: November 22, 2008

Sun reports horror story first quarter

by Shawn Ingram on Oct 31, 2008 at 07:00 AM

Sun MicrosystemsSun Microsystems announced a horrific quarter yesterday—a loss for what is now the third quarter in a row.  This past quarter resulted in a net loss of $1.68 billion, with a revenue of $2.99 billion.  The same quarter last year had a net income of $89 million, and a $3.22 billion revenue.  Ouch, that can’t go over too well.

Sun also hinted at possible layoffs in the future, which, while depressing, isn’t all that surprising given the current state of the economy.  There were also reports of slowing sales in its main server lines.  It seems open sourcing a number of it’s software hasn’t helped either.

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Sun beats Microsoft to ODF compatibility in Office

by Aaron Kraus on May 26, 2008 at 08:52 AM

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Want to use MS Office to open and save ODF spreadsheets, word processing, and presentation documents, but don’t want to wait until 2009 to do it?  Sun has got you covered.  Microsoft recently announced that native ODF support would be coming to its popular Office 2007 productivity suite with the release of Service Pack 2, currently scheduled for early to mid 2009.  Users who either can not or do not wish to wait that long have an alternative though, and it comes from one of Microsoft’s chief competitors in the market for office productivity software: Sun Microsystems.

Sun has taken the open source OpenOffice suite of productivity applications, and offers a branded version called StarOffice 8.  The productivity suite, which includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database capabilities (think Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, and Access) costs far less than typical licenses for MS Office, and offers nearly the same functionality.  Major advantages include full compatibility with both ODF and popular MS Office formats, including .doc/.odt, .xls/.ods, and .ppt/.odp, as well as significant cost savings versus a typical installation of MS Office.

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