Screaming Penguin

Marco Boerries is interviewed on the ComputerWorld site in this peice of their Comdex coverage. Here are some of the better nuggets:

Q: Were there other suitors for StarDivision, and were any of them existing office suite software vendors? A: Yes, and no comment. Q: How many StarOffice users were there prior to the Sun acquisition, and how many users do you think you'll be netting in the near future? A: We had about 4 million StarOffice users before the Sun purchase. Now we've had 1.1 million downloads of StarOffice from the Web in less than two months and we've distributed 1 million more copies via CD-ROM. We'll distribute hundreds of thousands at this week's show and then will bundle 2 million copies with magazines. People will be switching to StarOffice in the tens of millions in a very short period of time. Q: How will you be positioning StarPortal? A: StarPortal is the server version of StarOffice and manages all different data resources from any device. You can access StarPortal from a browser via a PalmPilot, a Windows CE device, a cell phone, etc.