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PRNewswire: Sun Microsystems Taps Breakaway Solutions to Manage Distribution of StarOffice Office
Oct 7, 1999, 23:01 UTC
"Breakaway Solutions, Inc...announced today that it has been selected by Sun Microsystems...to host and distribute Sun's new StarOffice suite of office productivity tools."
"Through Breakaway Solutions' data centers in both the U.S. and overseas, users are now able to download the StarOffice software...at no charge. This groundbreaking announcement makes high-quality office productivity software available for free for the first time in an easily accessible format."
"As we explored ways to effectively distribute StarOffice, we felt strongly that Breakaway Solutions had the technology, application management expertise, and state-of-the-art infrastructure to provide this service to our customers," said Dale Ferrario, director of software products and platforms; network service provider IT at Sun Microsystems. "Breakaway Solutions is the only Application Service Provider (ASP) providing access to StarOffice from data centers both in the U.S. and Europe and we plan to expand that access to the Far East in the near future."
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