OpenOffice.org
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OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, was an open source office suite.
It was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice, which Sun Microsystems acquired in 1999 for internal use.
Sun open-sourced the software in July 2000 as a competitor to Microsoft Office, releasing version 1.0 on 1 May 2002.
In 2011 Oracle Corporation, the then-owner of Sun, announced that it would no longer offer a commercial version of the suite and that it was donating the project to the Apache Foundation.
Apache renamed the software Apache OpenOffice.
Other active successor projects include LibreOffice and NeoOffice.
External links
- OpenOffice.org @ Wikipedia
