[tech] (fwd) Re: Offer for StarOffice IRIX port

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From: Brent Casavant <bcasavan at sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: Offer for StarOffice IRIX port
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 23:59:22 -0500
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On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Alias|Wavefront User wrote:

> I am just wondering why SGI themselves are not doing something like this,
> in order to offer the owners of IRIX boxes a reasonable office suite. It is
> somehow strange in my point of view, that a company which is selling boxes
> for an average of $25K is not able to track the need of their clients.

Rest assured that within hours of StarOffice being made publically
available, people within SGI downloaded the source and began working
on the port. We *do* realize this package is tremendously useful, and
hopefully you will see the benefits of their work before too long.

Brent Casavant

P.S. Before anyone asks, no I am not one of the people working on this,
so I really can't be of much help with this particular item.

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Brent Casavant            bcasavan at sgi.com
Kernel Engineer           http://reality.sgi.com/bcasavan
Silicon Graphics, Inc.

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