
Starting with version 6.0, StarOffice is based on the code with the addition of some proprietary components. This strategy allowed Sun to access rapid development at a lower cost. In 2000, Sun decided to make the StarOffice sources available under an open source license the following year the project was born. Sun set out to provide an alternative to the Microsoft Office product, which was dominant on the market at the time. In August 1999, Sun Microsystems bought StarDivision, a German software company that produced the StarOffice office suite. Apache OpenOffice is in blue, NeoOffice in purple, LibreOffice in green. Release history of major versions of software derived from StarOffice and. They are generally free, open source and available for Windows systems and for Wine. There are also different versions of OpenOffice that can be transported and used on an external storage medium, such as a USB medium. However, the suite is still commonly referred to without using the suffix.

The suffix ".org" was added around the time the software was run by Sun Microsystems (later to become Oracle America ) after a trademark dispute with a Dutch company, with a request that the project formally adopt as its own.

In computer science, Apache OpenOffice, known as OpenOffice and formerly as, is a personal productivity software developed by the Apache Software Foundation which since June 2011 owns its ownership and copyright and distributes it under the free AL2 license. The main screen of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 in Italian
