Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Sun Microsystems has announced the availability of its StarOffice 9
productivity suite for Mac OS X. The news comes just one month after
the open source equivalent of the latest StarOffice, OpenOffice 3.0
announced support for the Mac platform.
The news is a small ray of sunshine in an
otherwise gloomy year for Sun, which finds its proprietary hardware
business being continually squeezed by cheap commodity server platforms.
The latest version of StarOffice comes with Mozilla's Thunderbird email
client and Lightning extension for calendaring as part of its
distribution.
According to Sun, the new suite includes many extensions that make it
easier to perform common tasks such as editing PDF files, creating
reports, blogging, and publishing wikis. Additionally, Sun Services
promises to provide enterprise tools to assist customers who are
migrating from Microsoft Office to StarOffice 9.
"With every release, StarOffice becomes a more powerful, effective
productivity tool. The latest, StarOffice 9, is especially notable for
how well it deals with various file formats," said Jonathan Eunice,
Founder and Principal IT Adviser at Illuminata.
"In addition to its native ISO-standard Open Document Format, it has
strong support for Microsoft Office -- both legacy and new OOXML files
-- and for PDF, which can now be imported and edited."
According to Sun, StarOffice 9 comes with a new start center, new icons
and a host of usability improvements. New features include multiple
page editing in Writer, an optimization Solver tool and 1024 columns in
Calc, native table support in Impress, and effective handling of
poster-size graphics in Draw.
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