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PALO ALTO, CA - July 19, 2000 - Today at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Monterey, California, Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it will release the source code of its StarOffice (TM) Suite, a leading, high quality, office productivity application software suite, to the open source community under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Sun ...
OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite. Active successor projects include LibreOffice (the most actively developed), Apache OpenOffice and Collabora Online. OpenOffice was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice, which Sun Microsystems acquired in 1999 for internal use.
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OpenOffice Is the #1 Open Source Office Suite. Originally developed by Sun Microsystems, the code for OpenOffice was made open source in 2000. Since then, OpenOffice has been developed by users and the Open Office Project. Because OpenOffice is open source, it is constantly evolving with new features and extensions.
Oct 13, 2000 · StarDivision, the original author of the StarOffice suite of software, was founded in Germany in the mid-1980s. It was acquired by Sun Microsystems during the summer of 1999 and StarOffice 5.2 was released in June of 2000.
Sep 9, 1999 · Now that Sun has acquired the StarOffice software, the company has a respectable office suite that runs on Windows 9x, NT, Solaris, Linux, and even OS/2. On Linux, StarOffice is one of the major applications currently available. Sun will argue that its office software is free and is good (and it is), so why spend $500 to $800 on Microsoft Office?
Companies Information Technology. Open-source software and purchase by Oracle. In 1999 Sun acquired the StarOffice software suite, a competitor of Microsoft’s Office suite (primarily Word, Excel, and PowerPoint ), and distributed it for free under the name OpenOffice.
