Sun komt met StarOffice voor de Mac

Na 3 jaar komt er weer een MacOS versie van StarOffice, zo laat MacWeek ons weten:

The Mac version will join a growing list of platforms supported by StarOffice, which Sun is grooming as a challenger to the hegemony of Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite.

Lisa Carnochan, Webtop and application software group marketing manager at Palo Alto, Calif.-based Sun, said engineers are starting work on a Mac version of StarOffice. While the Mac software may be available in time for StarOffice 5.2 -- the next incremental rev of the software -- Carnochan declined to specify a delivery date. The last Mac version of StarOffice, 4.0, shipped in 1996, Sun said.

The number of engineers working on StarOffice was doubled and will double again, the company said.