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Star Division was bought by Sun Microsystems (later bought by Oracle). I was there, then. That's the original reason we have Oracle OpenOffice: Open Office par
by gtufano 11y ago
Star Division was bought by Sun Microsystems (later bought by Oracle). I was there, then.
That's the original reason we have Oracle OpenOffice: Open Office part derived from Sun's OpenOffice; the Oracle part the reason for the split between LibreOffice and OpenOffice. ;-)
- frik 11y agoOh, yes I mixed hat up. It was Sun Microsystems. SuSE/Novell had a license deal with Microsoft. MS sold SuSE Linux and Novell added improved Office format and VBA compatibility to their OpenOffice fork. IBM forked OpenOffice for their Lotus suite. IBM Lotus Symphony.