OpenOffice.org
discontinued free software office suite / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
OpenOffice.org was a free open source office suite. The free software project was hosted by Sun Microsystems and then Oracle Corporation and it was based on the older StarOffice software that was created by Sun Microsystems. It was available for many different operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris; and was meant to be an alternative to Microsoft Office. It supported Microsoft Office file formats as well as its own OpenDocument format.
Developer(s) | StarOffice (1984–1999) by StarDivision OpenOffice.org (1999–2011) by Sun Microsystems (1999–2009) Oracle Corporation (2010–2011) |
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Initial release | 30 April 2002 (2002-04-30)[1] |
Final release | |
Written in | C++ and Java |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris |
Platform | IA-32 and x86-64 |
Available in | 121 languages[3] |
Type | Office suite |
License | Dual-licensed under the SISSL and LGPL (OpenOffice.org 2 Beta 2 and earlier)[4] LGPL version 3 (OpenOffice.org 2 to OpenOffice.org 3.3)[5] |
Website | www |
The ".org" part of the previous name OpenOffice.org was there because OpenOffice is already trademarked. It was often called "OOo" for short.
In January 2010, Oracle Corporation bought Sun Microsystems, which developed OpenOffice.org until that point. In September 2010, a large part of the developers created The Document Foundation and forked the project into the new LibreOffice project because, among other reasons, they were not certain if the development would be successful under Oracle management. In April 2011, Oracle stopped development of OpenOffice.org and laid off the remaining development team. A few months later, it donated the existing source code and trademarks to the Apache Foundation, which released the first version of Apache OpenOffice.