It was distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 (LGPL) early versions were also available under the Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL). was primarily developed for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Solaris, and later for OS X, with ports to other operating systems. It could also read a wide variety of other file formats, with particular attention to those from Microsoft Office. Its default file format was the OpenDocument Format (ODF), an ISO/ IEC standard, which originated with. OpenOffice included a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc), a presentation application (Impress), a drawing application (Draw), a formula editor (Math), and a database management application (Base). Sun open-sourced the OpenOffice suite in July 2000 as a competitor to Microsoft Office, releasing version 1.0 on. It was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice, which Sun Microsystems acquired in 1999 for internal use. ( OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is an open-source office suite. exe without JRE) ĭual-licensed under the SISSL and GNU LGPL ( 2 Beta 2 and earlier) Linux, OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris ġ43.4 MB (3.3.0 en-US Windows. Now that we have LibreOffice, I'm just not sure there's a place for OpenOffice anymore.The Start Center from v3.2.1 So, while it may be nice to see Oracle turn the software over to the community-whatever its motivations-it's going to be interesting to see where it goes from here. In a conversation this morning, for instance, Canonical spokesman Gerry Carr told me that, while OpenOffice is still available through its repositories, Ubuntu will continue to offer LibreOffice by default for the foreseeable future. Now that the community has fairly unanimously moved on to LibreOffice, in other words, Oracle's move could well be too little, too late for the software suite. Oracle did, after all, simply inherit the software and trademark through its acquisition of Sun early last year.Įither way, the question now appears to be who, if anyone, will really want to pick up OpenOffice and continue working on it at this stage in the game. It certainly seems safe to assume that the commercial version of the software hasn't been selling too well-not well enough, anyway, to justify Oracle's continuing investment.
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