OpenOffice.org
Website : http://www.openoffice.org/
| Initial release | April 30, 2002 |
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| Stable release | 3.3.0 |
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| Developer(s) | Oracle Corporation |
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OpenOffice.org, commonly known as OOo or OpenOffice, is an open-source application suite whose main components are for word processing,spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases. It is an open-source version of the StarOffice office suite, with development sponsored primarily by Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation (after its acquisition of Sun in 2010) from its initial release in 2000. In April 2011, Oracle announced it would no longer be supporting commercial development of OpenOffice.org. Many of the former major contributors now work on the similar LibreOffice project.
OpenOffice is available for a number of different computer operating systems, is distributed as free software and is written using its own GUI toolkit. It supports the ISO/IEC standard OpenDocument Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office formats among others. As of November 2009, OpenOffice.org supports over 110 languages. As free software, users are free to download, modify, use and distribute OpenOffice.org.
OpenOffice.org originated as StarOffice, an office suite developed by StarDivision and acquired by Sun Microsystems in August 1999. The source code of the suite was released in July 2000 with the aim of reducing the dominant market share of Microsoft Office by providing a free and open alternative; later versions of StarOffice are based upon OpenOffice.org with additional proprietary components.
The project and software are commonly known as OpenOffice, but this term is trademarked both in the Netherlands, by a company co-founded by Wouter Hanegraaff, and also, independently, in the UK by Orange UK. As a result, the project adopted OpenOffice.org as its formal name.
Platforms
Platforms supported by OO.o include Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSD, OpenVMS, OS/2 and IRIX. The current primary development platforms are Microsoft Windows, Linux and Solaris.
Support for Mac OS X exists for OS X's native Aqua user interface, as of version 3.0. Previous versions required installing the X Window System component. NeoOffice is an independent fork of OpenOffice, specially adapted for Mac OS X.
Operating system compatibility
- FreeBSD: v3.2.1
- Linux
- OpenBSD
- NetBSD
- Solaris: v3.2.1
- Mac OS X v10.2: up to v1.1.2
- Mac OS X v10.3: up to v2.1
- Mac OS X v10.4–v10.5 (Power PC): up to v3.2
- Mac OS X v10.4–v10.5 (Intel): v3.2
- Mac OS X v10.6: v3.2.1
- Windows 95: up to v1.1.5
- Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 6 – up to v2.1
- Windows 98 – Windows ME: up to v2.4.3
- Windows 2000 – Windows 7: v3.3 (Tablet PC input is not supported)
- OS/2 and eComStation: up to v3.1.1
- IRIX (mips4): up to v1.0.3
