Sun occassionally releases its own product based on a recent stable built of OpenOffice and calls it "StarOffice". It is being rapidly developed by programmers many of whom are still associated with / paid by Sun. It was purchased by Sun Microsystems and the source code donated to the open source community under General Public Licence (Aug.2000). StarOffice used to be a commercial program ("Star Division", Germany). OpenOffice is cross-platform: it runs on Linux, MS Windows, Solaris, and Mac OS X, with full file-level compatibility.īrief history. The current (non-developer) version of OpenOffice is 1.0.1 (Oct.
The latest version can be downloaded (free) from (large, ~70 MB download, probably not practical with a modem). OpenOffice is included on the more recent Linux distribution CDs (Nov.2002). It sports the best, and the most feature-packed word processor and spreadsheet for Linux. OpenOffice is a complete office suite: word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, drawing program, graphing module, and editor for mathematical equations.
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