This newspaper article mentions Sun's plans for using StarOffice and Linux to challenge Microsoft's desktop dominance. "Sun intends to combine its own software such as StarOffice with the free open-source operating system Linux to offer business-users a cost-effective alternative to Microsoft Office, which recently became more expensive. It is also likely that Sun will expand its Linux server offering to compete with Microsoft." More detailed announcements will come out during Sun's annual network event on September 18-20, 2002.

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