| Ximian bundles StarOffice 6.0 |
May 20, 2002
Boston, MA -- (press release excerpt) -- Ximian, Inc. today announced it will bundle the Sun StarOffice 6.0 productivity suite across a range of its desktop and software management products and services for Linux. Customers buying the boxed version of Ximian Desktop Professional Edition or subscribing to the premium Red Carpet Express software updating service will receive StarOffice 6.0 with their purchases. Workgroups and organizations purchasing the Red Carpet CorporateConnect service for centralized software management can also install StarOffice 6.0 on each of their supported systems. As a result, Ximian end users and corporate customers can cost-effectively include StarOffice productivity applications as part of their desktop productivity solutions. Ximian Desktop Professional Edition and the premium Red Carpet services featuring StarOffice 6.0 can be purchased at the Ximian web site.
Now offered as part of the larger Ximian solution, StarOffice 6.0 provides improved productivity for individual and corporate users. Specifically, StarOffice enables users to create, open, modify, save and resend native Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and seamlessly integrates with Ximian Desktop, including one-click attachment handling in the Ximian Evolution email client, which speeds the opening of Microsoft Office files sent as email enclosures to Linux users.
StarOffice 6.0 offers a more streamlined user interface than previous versions. New features and capabilities include improved interoperability with Microsoft Office files, support for XML file formats, integrated creativity and productivity tools and enhanced international support. StarOffice provides users with a choice in office productivity suites that run on multiple operating systems, including the Solaris Operating Environment, Microsoft Windows and Linux.
StarOffice 6.0 is bundled with various Ximian offerings, including: Ximian Desktop Professional Edition, priced at $59.95, including 90 days of web-based technical support. Red Carpet Express, with subscriptions priced at $9.95 a month or for $99.95 for a year. Red Carpet CorporateConnect, which includes a license for StarOffice 6.0 included with each paid seat, priced at $150 per year per seat.
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