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Sun's Free StarOffice Suite Surpasses One Million Downloads in Two Months - Product Information

Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced Tuesday that more than 1,000,000 copies of StarOffice 5.1 software have been downloaded in the nine weeks since Sun introduced this product line to the market and announced the purchase of the privately-held Star Division Corporation of Fremont, California.

In addition, over 500,000 copies of this full-featured, interoperable, multi-platform office productivity suite have been bundled with a variety of PC, Linux, and other manufacturers/distributors and over 500,000 promotional copies of StarOffice software have been circulated worldwide.

"The overwhelming response of the market is a testament to customer demand for choice and quality in desktop productivity tools," said Marco Boerries, vice president and general manager, Webtop and Application Software, Sun Microsystems. "Sun is changing the rules for how we work, taking office software into the 'dot-com' age and every one of the two million plus users who now have access to StarOffice 5.1 software will automatically be portal-ready for the StarPortal software initiative."

Sun also announced Tuesday that this award-winning suite of productivity software has chalked up yet another award. Home Office Computing Magazine has selected StarOffice software as one of the 100 Best Products. This honor is given to products and services for home office workers based on value, performance, affordability, ease of use and suitability for the home office user.

StarOffice software is available worldwide for commonly used operating systems, offering a productivity solution to enterprises running heterogeneous computing infrastructures. Not only does this full suite of productivity software enable users to read and write legacy files, but it is interoperable with other popular office suite file formats. Users benefit from StarOffice software's single interface to office productivity tools, such as word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations, HTML editor, mail/news reader, event planner, and formula editor functions.

Now, users no longer have to pay application licensing fees in order to gain access to a rich suite of productivity applications. StarOffice Software Helps Lay Foundation for Dot-Com Enterprise StarOffice software is a major component of Sun's vision of "anyone, anytime, anywhere on any device" enterprise network computing. The StarPortal initiative, based on StarOffice software, will provide word processing, presentation graphics, spreadsheet and other office software tools to any Web browser and portable device. Early-access versions of the StarPortal office productivity software for the web will be available in 2000.

Representing the next stage in portal computing, StarPortal software initiative is a major to provide word processing, presentation graphics, spreadsheet and other office software tools to any web browser, and eventually portable devices. This initiative has received broad industry support from key Internet Service Providers (ISPs), software developers, Internet outsourcing companies and others.

Sun will continue to offer the traditional StarOffice desktop version software for free download at www.sun.com/staroffice.

StarOffice software is a highly regarded, cross-platform personal productivity suite that has been under development and in distribution for more than ten years. Designed for compatibility and stability, StarOffice software is the No.1 Linux-based personal productivity application suite according to a linux.de poll and won the Editor's Choice Award for Best Productivity Application/Suite at the recent LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Jose.

StarOffice software runs on the Solaris Operating Environment, Windows, Linux and OS/2 platforms and is available in eight languages. StarOffice software has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic design, presentations, HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and database functions and contains filters for importing other file formats. Users of other popular office productivity suites should find StarOffice software easy to use. With the release of the new 5.1 version for worldwide distribution, StarOffice software provides performance and feature upgrades that improve user experience and productivity.

StarOffice 5.1 release includes:

-- StarOffice Writer for document editing, -- StarOffice Calc for creating spreadsheets, -- StarOffice Impress for creating presentations, -- StarOffice Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics, -- StarOffice Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists, -- StarOffice Mail for handling e-mail, -- StarOffice Base for creating interfaces to databases, -- StarOffice Discussion for reading Internet news, -- StarOffice Math for creating complex formulas, and -- StarOffice Workplace for creating a desktop environment FMI: http://www.sun.com.