StarSuite 8

Singapore Airlines has rolled out Sun Microsystem's StarOffice software in its new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft becoming the first ever airline to install a productivity suite for the benefits of its passengers.

Massachusetts plans to phase out office productivity applications from Microsoft and other providers in favor of those based on the "open" standards of the OASIS Open Document Format, used in StarOffice 8.

Sun gifts StarOffice to nonprofit and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) throughout the world through a partnership with Gifts In Kind International.

StarOffice 8 received Smart Computing's "Smart Distinction" award beating out Microsoft Office 2007, Corel WordPerfect Office X3 and Ability Office.

"The first thing you'll notice on installation is the much improved interface, which even looks a lot more like Office. Having opened various Microsoft documents within StarOffice, we are happy to say that it does a much better job of retaining the existing formatting."

"Built-in usability enhancements conform to the look and feel of industry standard functionality, configuration options and language support is enhanced, and interoperability with Microsoft Office is more comprehensive. Sun has also has thrown in a newly redesigned database engine and software development kit (SDK)."