StarOffice is Sun Microsystems' commercial office suite software package. StarOffice is the commercialized version of the open-source codebase developed by OpenOffice.org with some additional features.

The version sold in East Asia is known as StarSuite and is functionally identical to StarOffice, with full file interchange and compatibility, but includes language and font support for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

StarOffice supports the OpenDocument standard as of version 8.

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Microsoft, eat your own dog food
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:06:12 -0700
"Eating your own dog food" is an odd software development-related term that describes the importance of ensuring that your own developers use the technology they are creating. When Microsoft has hewed closed to this principle, their products have achieved dominant market shares. Unfortunately, Microsoft is not applying this...
MSI Eclipse - First X58 motherboard for Intel Core i7
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:50:27 -0700
MSI has unveiled details of its new Eclipse motherboard - the company's first X58 motherboard for Intel Core i7. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Intel teases shape-shifting programmable matter
Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:46:30 -0700
Intel CEO Justin Rattner teased his Intel Developer Forum audience with technology of the not-so-disant-future that could take an object design of any imaginable shape, 'hit the print command,' and see the matter take shape. SAN FRANCISCO, CA--Mobile phones in future could be thumb-sized in pockets, and in practically...
Nokia and Sun confirm S40, Java ME vulnerabilities
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:21:26 -0700
According to published reports, Nokia and Sun have both confirmed the existence of serious security problems in the Series 40 and Java Platform Micro Edition Java ME , giving instant credibility to the claims by Polish hacker Adam Gowdiak. Gowdiak left, one of the four LSD researchers...
Pulse provides novel training and tools configuration resource to aid in developer education, preparedness
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:08:42 -0700
MyEclipse maker Genuitec developed Pulse last year to monitor and update the most popular Eclipse plug-ins, but Pulse also has a powerful role in making Java training and tools preferences configuration management more streamlined, automated and extensible. by Dana Gardner
Intel backs Microsoft's concurrent-computing play
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:10:50 -0700
On August 20, Intel rolled out new parallel-processing tools that support Microsoft's concurrent runtime environment that is expected to become a central component of Redmond's next-generation computing model. by Mary Jo Foley

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