Since the trade mark of OpenOffice was already taken, they chose the name and that is why the open version of StarOffice is "unofficially" called OpenOffice.
By doing this, Sun Microsystems offered a free and open alternative to Microsoft Office. To reduce the overwhelming market share of Microsoft Office, the code of StarOffice was released to the public in July of 2000. The source code of this application was later acquired by Sun Microsystems in August of 1999. was initially created by a company called StarDivision in Germany under the name "StarOffice". (also referred as OO.o or OOo) is an office application suite available on several different operating systems.
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