Spurning PC's, Sun challenges rival Microsoft

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Sun Microsystems Inc., in an effort to break Microsoft Corp.'s stranglehold on office software applications, has acquired German office productivity software maker Star Division GmbH. Sun plans to turn Star's software into a Web-based application which can be accessed via PCs, cell phones and hand-held computers. Sun believes the future to be in Web-based applications and wants to transfer Star Office software from a niche-based product used by Linux operating system fans to a mainstream computer software. Many industry analysts see the future of computing as Web- and Internet-based rather than PC-based. Sun knows that slowing Microsoft has always been advantageous to its position and it may best be able to do that by providing lower-cost alternatives to Microsoft's dominant products. Sun plans to allow downloading of Star Office free via the Internet. Sun faces a huge challenge but may have the technological expertise and the finances to give Microsoft a run for its money.

Electronic computers, Electronic Computer Manufacturing, Asset sales & divestitures, Strategy & planning, Acquisitions & mergers, Germany, Computers & Auxiliary Equip, Business Software Pkgs (Micro), Computer industry, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Company acquisition/merger, Internet services, Business management software, Suites (Software), Market share, Sun Microsystems Inc., SUNW, Company internet strategy, Star Division GmbH

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Silicon Valley cites concern amid glee on Microsoft case

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Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings on the Microsoft antitrust case has raised concerns as well as smiles in Silicon Valley. Although folks in Silicon Valley are pleased that Microsoft is seen as a problem there is also a flip side to this coin. They are also worried that this case may bring about more government intervention in the world of high-technology.

Computer Software, Software, Company legal issue, Cases, Antitrust law, United States. Department of Justice, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Silicon Valley

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