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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, releasing version 1.0 on 1 May 2002.
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StarOffice is the leading, full-featured productivity suite for all major platforms, including Solaris (TM) Operating Environment, Windows, Linux, and, later in the year, the Macintosh. StarOffice 6, the next version currently in development, will serve as the source code base for OpenOffice.org.
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- The OpenOffice.org Project
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, releasing version 1.0 on 1 May 2002.
Apr 1, 2013 · The official home page of the Apache OpenOffice open source project, home of OpenOffice Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and Base.
Sun Microsystems' engineering efforts that will deliver future versions of the StarOffice productivity suite will be derived directly from the OpenOffice.org technology base. Sun will use the single OpenOffice.org master CVS source base as its own engineering master source base.
Oct 13, 2000 · It was acquired by Sun Microsystems during the summer of 1999 and StarOffice 5.2 was released in June of 2000. Subsequent versions of StarOffice software, beginning with 6.0, were built using the OpenOffice.org source, APIs, file formats, and reference implementation.
Feb 14, 2008 · A Short History of Apache OpenOffice. Chapter 1: What is OpenOffice.org? The OpenOffice.org project began when Sun Microsystems released the source code (“blueprints") for its StarOffice® software to the open source community in 2000.
StarOffice was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999, which released the source code the following year as a free, open source office suite called OpenOffice.org, which subsequent versions of StarOffice were based on, with additional proprietary components.
