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CORANTE John Yunker is founder of Byte Level Research and author of the widely acclaimed book, Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies and editor of Global By Design.

He has covered the emerging field of Web globalization for half a decade and has published a wide range of reports dedicated to best practices in Web localization and internationalization.
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March 11, 2005

StarOffice Learns a Few More Languages

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Posted by John Yunker

Sun says that it localize its StarOffice software suite into five additional languages over the next year, which will include Russian, Polish and Dutch. The software is currently available in 11 languages.

StarOffice costs a great deal less than Microsoft's Office suite, which makes it particularly appealing in an emerging market like Russia. While Microsoft's Office suite is available more languages than StarOffice, the gap is narrowing.

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