About the talk:
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.
About the speaker:
For more than two decades, Phil Parkman has exercised his technical expertise in the computer industry through a variety of field and marketing positions. Now, as director of operations for the Webtop and Applications Software group at Sun Microsystems, Parkman is taking his expertise one step further by assisting Sun in its efforts to dot com the enterprise. In his current position, Parkman is responsible for the day-to-day operations of StarOffice, Sun's premium office productivity suite.
Prior to working on StarOffice, Parkman used his technical expertise to successfully lead Sun's technical team through its most recognized product and technology launches, including the launch of Java, the JavaStation, Netra j, and the Ultra 1, 5 and 10 workstations. In addition, Parkman managed Sun's participation in the 1994 World Cup.
Before joining Sun Microsystems, Parkman worked for some of the earliest workstation companies including Massachusetts Computer Co.
Parkman is a graduate of the University of California, Davis in Systems Analysis.
Contact information:
Phil Parkman
Sun Microsystems
901 San Antonio Road
Palo Alto CA 94303
email: phil.parkman@eng.sun.com
Telephone: 650.786.3990
URL: http://www.sun.com/staroffice