Not that this is any surprise, but the surprise to me was that it was built using Java and that it actually cost money. I would think that with all the pirating going on in Asia that if you were going to create a competitor to Office that you would do so and not make price an issue. Microsoft can easily match the price and continue to compete. Now if only they would make their suite available for Linux as well…

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