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X-Persona: Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 10:22:08 -0800 (PST) From: Mary Margaret Barnes Reply-To: Mary Margaret Barnes Subject: Stanford colloquium abstract/bio? To: jwharton@netcom.com Cc: mary.barnes@eng.sun.com, allison@shasta.Stanford.EDU, natalie.churchill@eng.sun.com, ann.stewart@eng.sun.com Content-MD5: Yrh3hpGmNLqS7hqh2t3PyA== John, Thank for the reminder on Marco's participation for the Stanford Colloquim. Included is the information on Marco's bio and an abstract of his talk. Please send information on where Marco will be presenting and the time he should arrive. thanks MMB Speaker Name: Marco Boerries Affliation/Title Vice President and General Manager, Webtop and Application Software Software Products & Platforms Division Sun Microsystems, Inc. Title of talk: StarOffice software Brief Abstract: StarOffice from Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a powerful and easy-to-use office productivity suite, available on Linux, Windows, Solaris and OS/2. StarOffice's complete set of tools includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentations, graphics, database, mail, scheduling and more, all delivered to the user in an integrated desktop environment. With StarOffice, Sun extends the .com business model to include productivity applications backed by Sun's comprehensive support services and training. It is available as a free download to users, service providers and educational institutions. Now, users no longer have to pay application licensing fees in order to gain access to a rich suite of productivity applications. StarOffice software is a major component of Sun's vision of "anyone, anytime, anywhere on any device" enterprise network computing. And users, tempted by feature rich applications including the forthcoming StarOffice Portal software, are finding new freedom. The ultimate dot com application, StarPortal[tm] software is poised to change the way people compute, delivering office productivity applications in a web-based model. Sun is changing the rules on we how we work, taking office software into the dot-com age. BIOGRAPHY As Vice President and General Manager of Webtop and Application Software at Sun Microsystems, Inc., Marco Boerries is responsible for Sun's Webtop infrastructure and software strategy which includes webtop applications, the Common Desktop Environment, Netscape browser and StarOffice products. Mr. Boerries is the founder of Star Division, a leading provider of office productivity software. With more than four million users, StarOffice is available in eight languages and supports all major operating systems. Mr. Boerries' significant efforts over the last 14 years produced a robust, full-featured office productivity suite and successfully established the StarOffice brand internationally. Mr. Boerries began creating word-processing software at the age of 16 and founded Star Division in Luneburg, Germany in 1985 after an inspiring student exchange program at Palo Alto high school in "Silicon Valley". Since then, Star Division has produced numerous software programs under Mr. Boerries direction, including StarOffice Writer word processor, StarOffice Base database interface, StarOffice Calc spreadsheet and StarOffice Draw graphics software as well as StarOffice Impress presentation software and other office suite applications. Marco Boerries Sun Microsystems 901 San Antonio Road Palo Alto CA 94303 email: marco.boerries@eng.sun.com Telephone: 650.786.3990 URL: http://www.sun.com/staroffice

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email: marco.boerries@eng.sun.com