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On 19 July 2000 at OSCON, Sun Microsystems announced it would make the source code of StarOffice available for download with the intention of building an open-source development community around the software and of providing a free and open alternative to Microsoft Office. In August 1999, Star Division was acquired by Sun Microsystems for US$59.5 million, as it was supposedly cheaper than licensing Microsoft Office for 42,000 staff. originated as StarOffice, a proprietary office suite developed by German company Star Division from 1985 on. Other active successor projects include LibreOffice (the most actively developed ) and NeoOffice (commercial, and available only for macOS). Apache renamed the software Apache OpenOffice. In 2011, Oracle Corporation, the then-owner of Sun, announced that it would no longer offer a commercial version of the suite and donated the project to the Apache Foundation.

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It was distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 (LGPL) early versions were also available under the Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL).

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was primarily developed for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Solaris, and later for OS X, with ports to other operating systems. It could also read a wide variety of other file formats, with particular attention to those from Microsoft Office. Its default file format was the OpenDocument Format (ODF), an ISO/ IEC standard, which originated with. OpenOffice included a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc), a presentation application (Impress), a drawing application (Draw), a formula editor (Math), and a database management application (Base). Sun open-sourced the OpenOffice suite in July 2000 as a competitor to Microsoft Office, releasing version 1.0 on.

It was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice, which Sun Microsystems acquired in 1999 for internal use. ( OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is an open-source office suite.

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exe without JRE) ĭual-licensed under the SISSL and GNU LGPL ( 2 Beta 2 and earlier) Some of your heavily formatted documents may be read and worked with under the OpenOffice component in question, but upon reediting in MS Office, the formatting of the information in the file may be corrupted, requiring a great deal of rework.Linux, OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris ġ43.4 MB (3.3.0 en-US Windows.

Basic formatting in all your documents (bold, italics, bullets, etc.) will likely transfer in and out of OpenOffice without issues or concerns. While is MS Office compatible, it is NOT MS Office. The tools are intuitive and easy to use, especially if you've used Office Suite products before, and at this price point, it's really hard to beat.Ĭaution should be exercised however, when reading and writing MS Office (and other suite) compatible file formats. OpenOffice offers Microsoft Office (as well as other) suite compatibility in a familiar environment. Though Microsoft has a student version of Office, it's still somewhat expensive. Best of all, 3 can be downloaded and used for free.Ĭons: MS Office Compatibility is NOT 100%, doesn't write back native MS Office file formats.Ĭonclusion: Having a free, open source alternative to Microsoft Office, especially for budget conscious families and students is important. If you've used Microsoft Office, or a similar set of tools, will be familiar and comfortable to you. It stores all your data in a standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages, including Microsoft Office. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. 3 is the leading open-source office suite, and includes applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases.

It's an MS Office compatible office suite and its available for multiple platforms. That's why I'm thankful for things like Oracle's. Not everyone can afford its heavy down stroke, even though it can be heavily discounted. While MS Office is the defacto standard for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, it IS rather expensive.

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Over the years, I've had a number of people come to me asking for help picking a word processor, spreadsheet, Office component or full suite. Create stunning, MS Office compatible documents with this industry leading office suite.

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