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OpenDocument support may spur interest
Now that at least one state has mandated the use of the OpenDocument format, there may be more interest than ever before in StarOffice.
Sun Microsystems last week shipped StarOffice 8, the latest version of its desktop productivity suite. The Santa Clara, Calif., company said the product is the first commercial office suite to support the OpenDocument format, designed to ease data flow among applications and upgrades.
OpenDocument has been at the center of an ongoing dispute between Microsoft and Massachusetts. The...