Jörg Heilig

Director Software Engineering

Sun Microsystems

OpenOffice.org, StarOffice and Sun

Agenda

Reasons for OO.o / StarOffice success

Brief history

Why Sun is in the Desktop business

SO 7 and how is it different from OO.o 1.1

Sun's role & goals in the OO.o project

The good, the bad, and the ugly

Future

Momentum

Number of StarOffice, StarSuite and OpenOffice.org copies distributed: over 40M

StarOffice-OpenOffice.org combined, cumulative downloads of 25 million

StarOffice distributed and available in over 40 countries

StarOffice PC OEMs include Sony, Hyundai, Fujitsu-Siemens

StarOffice/OO.o bundled with all top Linux distributions including Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, etc.

Over 12,500 StarOffice/OpenOffice.org developers

Currently 263 organizations have joined with Sun to contribute code to OpenOffice.org

StarOffice 6.0 product sold to end-user (Retail / e-tail / OEM /Enterprise): more than a million units

Jupiter research found that 6% of companies with less than 1000 users have standardized on SO/OO.o with an additional 3% deploying this year

What the Press is saying...

"Sun's StarOffice 7 has the interface familiarity and file-format compatibility that enable it to coexist with Microsoft's Office. Add to that great cross-platform support, both in file formats and in operating systems, and a cost that starts at $79 a copy, and StarOffice may manage to displace Microsoft Office at many companies...Sun Microsystems Inc.'s StarOffice 7 productivity suite is a capable cross-platform alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Office that comes at a price too attractive for enterprises to ignore."

Jason Brooks, eWeek

"Sun's new StarOffice 7 is, to begin with, a vast improvement over its predecessor. The new features incorporated into StarOffice7 make it one of the premiere office suites currently available, and its low cost certainly makes it the best value."

Jem Martzan, NewsForge Review

Reasons for OO.o / SO success

Too good to ignore and catching up

Independence

Open source

Vendor independence

XML file format

Multiple platform support

Price

Brief History

StarWriter for Windows 1.0 in 1993

Commercial success with SO 3.1 in 1996

Acquired by Sun in 1999

Sun created OpenOffice.org in 2000

StarOffice 7 is general available now

StarOffice team in Sun is very stable, motivated, and focused

Part of Sun's Desktop BU

MS Windows/Office

DHS Warnings

.NET

MSN Instant Messenger

Microsoft Office

Outlook

Internet Explorer

Windows Desktop

Sun's Java Desktop System

Java

GAIM

StarOffice

Evolution

Mozilla

JavaCard

GNOME

Sun's Java Desktop System

$100/Desktop/Year
or

$50/Employee/Year

$179/Windows Upgrade

and

$279/Office Upgrade

Sun and the Community

Governance shifting from project leads to elected Community Council

> 90 % of Sun's work is done in / on OO.o

< 10 % on JDS integration & differentiators

Sun engineers use OO.o forums for work

Strong outside contributions

Marketing, BizDev, Native Language

QA, Porting, L10n, Whiteboard

Spell checking, templates, fonts

Sun and the Community II

The good:

THANK YOU

The bad:

Core improvements still mainly by Sun

The ugly:

Unnecessary competition

StarOffice & OpenOffice.org

StarOffice Enterprise

StarOffice Retail

OpenOffice.org

Cost: $79.95 MSRP

Enhanced spellchecker, fonts, clip art, 60-day support entitlement

Cost: $25 - $60/user

Premium support, Configuration Manager, Migration Tools,

Enterprise Guides,

Partner Programs

Cost: Free

Applications, SDK, 24x7 Support, Multiple Platforms...

StarOffice Roadmap

2005

StarOffice 7

Project Q

Stability, performance

Accessibility

Support for Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese

PDF export, FLASH support

XML converter

Keyboard macro recorder, new icons

MS Interoperability

Usability

Performance, Stability

Easier programmability / scripting

ISV programs

New Database application

Redesigned charting functionality

Glow – Windows Enterprise Calendaring

Security – XML digital sig.

Advanced build/slide effects

Software Development

Kit

2003

Configuration Manager:

Management and

Administration Tool

2004

Product Updates

Minor enhancements

Patches

Support for latest
OS releases

Additional locales

Migration Tools &

Programs

Partner program

MS API Emulation

MS Macro conversion

Document analysis

Doc. pre-processing

2005

2003

Summary

Reasons for success

Too good to ignore and catching up

Independence

Price

Sun is committed to End to End systems

The community is inside and outside of Sun

We have the means in place for governance

This is a marathon
and we are at kilometer 30

Lets Talk ...

Any hard questions?

Comments?

Suggestions?

This presentation is targeted at a business, non-technical audience and is appropriate for both existing customers and prospects interested in the overarching Sun's software vision, strategy, and value proposition.

Add-on modules, such as referencable customers, product modules,
Sun on Sun software, etc. will be available shortly at: INSERT URL

5.3M new Linux Client license revenue units forcasted for 2004 with a CAGR of 23.3% (IDC)

•Mad Hatter demo

•The GNOME interface is very flexible. It even has the Windows theme. But I'm more comfortable with the Linux look-and-feel.

•This is the Mozilla browser. Let me show you this cool site: hilton.com. Did you know it's on Sun ONE Web Server running on Linux?

•This is the Evolution email client. Outlook look-and-feel. Zero retraining for Outlook users.

•This is StarOffice – compatible with MS Office... at a fraction of the cost

•To date more than 16.5M people have downloaded OpenOffice (as of the end of June 2003) from the openoffice.org site alone.

•We estimate around 40M downloads if you estimate all the mirror sites, and add in StarOffice sales through retail and OEM partners.

•The community is helping to provide translations in over 60 languages.

•The openoffice.org community developed ports for Mac OS X, and are contributing to the main code base

These are the 3 phases of the N1 rollout. You can see how the Provisioning Server fits into the first, virtualization phase, while tools like Solaris JumpStart are part of Sun's existing portfolio in the Provisioning space

1. Virtualization. The first phase, which we are embarking on now, is virtualization, which is the process of turning data center resources into a pool that can be tapped by a number of business services.

2. Provisioning. Provisioning is mapping services on to these virtual pools of resources. An example might be deciding that your billing service needs two data base applications, a portal and a web server, and some load balancers, and tying those all together in a service and then mapping them onto a pool of resources.

3. Policy and automation. Will let you write a policy statement like”the billing service gets priority the last week of the month” and have that rolled out through both the provisioning and the virtualization engines.

6.1 : Accessibility

Building Blocks --- modules

SDK – developer kit for integration of 3rd party software (i.e. SAP, PeopleSoft, etc)

Ent configuration: designed for better management of large configs (better GUI)

Module to provide support for Web Svcs

Patches: industry standard patch and maint releases to get patches & fixes to customers in a efficient manner

NOT TIEING FEATURE releases to Service Packs

Customers don't like new feature tied to service packs

Must be able to fix the product w/o changing the way the product works

7.0 - name is not in stone – place holder for next major release

Not defined but core elements being considered are listed

6.1 : Accessibility

Building Blocks --- modules

SDK – developer kit for integration of 3rd party software (i.e. SAP, PeopleSoft, etc)

Ent configuration: designed for better management of large configs (better GUI)

Module to provide support for Web Svcs

Patches: industry standard patch and maint releases to get patches & fixes to customers in a efficient manner

NOT TIEING FEATURE releases to Service Packs

Customers don't like new feature tied to service packs

Must be able to fix the product w/o changing the way the product works

7.0 - name is not in stone – place holder for next major release

Not defined but core elements being considered are listed

Jörg Heilig

2003-11-21T08:18:37

Manish Punjabi