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 Oracle Open Office 3.3.1 running on Windows 7 | |
| Original author(s) | Star Division, Sun Microsystems |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Oracle Corporation |
| Initial release | 1985 |
| Final release | |
| Operating system | CP/M, MS-DOS, Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris[4] |
| Platform | x86, SPARC |
| Successor | OpenOffice.org |
| Standard(s) | OpenDocument |
| Type | Office suite |
| License | Trialware |
| Website | www |
StarOffice is a discontinued proprietary office suite. Its source code continues today in derived open-source office suites Collabora Online and LibreOffice. StarOffice supported the OpenOffice.org XML file format, as well as the OpenDocument standard, and could generate PDF and Flash formats. It included templates, a macro recorder, and a software development kit (SDK).
The software originated in 1985 as StarWriter by Star Division, which marketed the suite with some success, primarily in Europe. StarOffice was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999, which released the source code the following year as a free and open source office suite called OpenOffice.org, which subsequent versions of StarOffice were based on, with additional proprietary components.[5] Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010, and the product was known briefly as Oracle Open Office before being discontinued in 2011, with Oracle turning OpenOffice.org into a "purely community-based project".[6][7]
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