StarOffice

<p>StarOffice is a discontinued <a href="/facts/Proprietary_software/9zcskxYL">proprietary</a> <a href="/facts/Office_suite/WcKtjN6j">office suite</a>. Its source code continues today in derived open-source office suites <a href="/facts/Collabora_Online/RzGxtF9A">Collabora Online</a> and <a href="/facts/LibreOffice/MInj5kF7">LibreOffice</a>. StarOffice supported the <a href="/facts/OpenOffice.org_XML/jb6krPw5">OpenOffice.org XML</a> file format, as well as the <a href="/facts/OpenDocument/pMtcVuNr">OpenDocument</a> standard, and could generate <a href="/facts/Portable_Document_Format/C9Mn1vYL">PDF</a> and <a href="/facts/SWF/5qwLlUC5">Flash</a> formats. It included <a href="/facts/Template_(file_format)/QsSb9691">templates</a>, a <a href="/facts/Macro_(computer_science)/7abAsm1o">macro</a> recorder, and a <a href="/facts/Software_development_kit/2Hkk6Hbs">software development kit</a> (SDK).
</p><p>The software originated in 1985 as StarWriter by <a href="/facts/Star_Division/YdRykNbA">Star Division</a>, which marketed the suite with some success, primarily in Europe. StarOffice was acquired by <a href="/facts/Sun_Microsystems/VJ9EzEFd">Sun Microsystems</a> in 1999, which released the <a href="/facts/Source_code/o9J6Jv23">source code</a> the following year as a <a href="/facts/Free_and_open-source_software/1cHtjLCB">free and open source</a> office suite called <a href="/facts/OpenOffice.org/561WcNgg">OpenOffice.org</a>, which subsequent versions of StarOffice were based on, with additional proprietary components. Sun Microsystems was <a href="/facts/Sun_acquisition_by_Oracle/W2K9XL4y">acquired by Oracle Corporation</a> 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".
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StarOffice