OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued
open-source
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office suite
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. Active successor projects include
LibreOffice (the most actively developed),
Apache OpenOffice
Apache OpenOffice (AOO) is an open-source office productivity software suite. It is one of the successor projects of OpenOffice.org and the designated successor of IBM Lotus Symphony. It is a close cousin of LibreOffice, Collabora Online and N ...
,
Collabora Online
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(enterprise ready LibreOffice) and
NeoOffice (commercial, and available only for macOS).
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.
OpenOffice included a
word processor (Writer), a
spreadsheet (Calc), a
presentation
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application (Impress), a
drawing application (Draw), a
formula editor (Math), and a
database management application (Base).
Its default
file format was the
OpenDocument Format (ODF), an
ISO
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/
IEC
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standard, which
originated with OpenOffice.org. It could also read a wide variety of other file formats, with particular attention to those from Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org was primarily developed for
Linux,
Microsoft Windows and
Solaris, and later for
OS X
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, with
ports
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to other
operating systems. It was distributed under the
GNU Lesser General Public License
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version 3 (LGPL); early versions were also available under the
Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL).
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. Apache renamed the software
Apache OpenOffice
Apache OpenOffice (AOO) is an open-source office productivity software suite. It is one of the successor projects of OpenOffice.org and the designated successor of IBM Lotus Symphony. It is a close cousin of LibreOffice, Collabora Online and N ...
.
History
OpenOffice.org originated as
StarOffice, a