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OpenOffice was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice, which Sun Microsystems acquired in 1999 for internal use. Sun open-sourced the OpenOffice suite in July 2000 as a competitor to Microsoft Office, [14] [15] releasing version 1.0 on 1 May 2002. [1]
StarOffice was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999, which released the source code the following year as a free and open source office suite called OpenOffice.org, which subsequent versions of StarOffice were based on, with additional proprietary components. [5]
After acquiring Sun Microsystems in January 2010, Oracle Corporation continued developing OpenOffice.org and StarOffice, which it renamed Oracle Open Office.In September 2010, the majority [17] [18] of outside OpenOffice.org developers left the project [19] [20] due to concerns over Sun's, and then Oracle's, management of the project, [21] [22] to form The Document Foundation (TDF).
OpenOffice.org (OOo), a discontinued open-source office software suite, originally based on StarOffice Apache OpenOffice (AOO), a derivative of OOo by the Apache Software Foundation, with contribution from IBM Lotus Symphony
Sun Microsystems, Inc., often known as Sun for short, was an American technology company that existed from 1982 to 2010 [2] which developed and sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services.
[8] [nb 1] Sun reintroduced the software as StarOffice 5.1a, and for the first time also free of charge for commercial use. The StarOffice suite has since been further improved by Sun Microsystems and the OpenOffice and LibreOffice communities. Sun Microsystems became a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle Corporation on 27 January 2010.
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today it would bar Sun Microsystems co-founder and early Google investor Andreas “Andy” Bechtolsheim for allegedly improperly trading based on ...
OpenOffice.org XML is an open XML-based file format developed as an open community effort [1] [2] [3] by Sun Microsystems in 2000–2002. The open-source software application suite OpenOffice.org 1.x and StarOffice 6 and 7 used the format as their native and default file format for saving files.