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Linuxcare strikes agreement with Sun

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Lisa M Bowman ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 01 Sep 1999 09:44 BST

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On Tuesday, Sun unveiled plans to buy Star Division Corp., maker of StarOffice, an office productivity application suite that runs on Linux. Linuxcare has support deals with several large companies interested in jumping on the Linux bandwagon, including IBM Corp.

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