StarOffice is Sun Microsystems' proprietary office suite software package. It is the basis of the free and open source OpenOffice.org package^[1], and contains some additional features. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... A software release is the distribution, whether public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product. ... // An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer. ... 1. ... This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ... Solaris is a computer operating system developed by Sun Microsystems. ... Computer software can be organized into categories based on common function, type, or field of use. ... In computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office application suite or productivity suite is a software suite intended to be used by typical clerical and knowledge workers. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... It has been suggested that closed source be merged into this article or section. ... In computing, an office suite, sometimes called an office application suite or productivity suite is a software suite intended to be used by typical clerical and knowledge workers. ... A software package is a bundle of one or several files that either are necessary for the execution of a computer program, or add features for a program already installed on the computer or network of computers. ... This article is about free software as used in the sociopolitical free software movement; for non-free software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... ... OpenOffice. ...

The version sold in East Asia is known as StarSuite and is functionally identical to StarOffice, with full file interchange and compatibility, but includes language and font support for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean. East Asia Geographic East Asia. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Traditional Chinese (Traditional Chinese: 正體字/繁體字, Simplified Chinese: 正体字/繁体字) refers to one of two standard sets of printed Chinese characters. ...

StarOffice 8 supports the OpenDocument standard. Semi-official ODF logo The OpenDocument format (ODF, ISO/IEC 26300, full name: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications) is a file format for electronic office documents, such as spreadsheets, charts, presentations, databases and word processing documents (e. ...

Features

The program includes:

• StarWriter — word processor .sdw (StarOffice 5.x) .sxw (StarOffice 6.x) .odt .ott -files
• StarCalc — spreadsheet .sdc (5.x) .sxc (6.x) .ods .ots -files
• StarImpress — presentation software .sdd (5.x) .sxi (6.x) .odp .otp -files
• StarDraw — drawing tool .sda (5.x) .sxd (6.x) .odg .otg -files
• StarBase — database .sdb (5.x) .odb -files

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• StarSchedule — personal information manager .sds -files
• StarMail — e-mail client
• StarDiscussion — news client
• StarMath — formula generator .smf (5.x) .sxm (6.x) .odf -files

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Proprietary components in StarOffice that are not in OpenOffice.org include:

• Several font metric compatible Unicode TrueType fonts containing bitmap representations for better appearance at smaller font sizes
• 12 Western fonts (including Andale Sans, Arial Narrow, Arial Black, Broadway, Garamond, Imprint MT Shadow, Kidprint, Palace Script, Sheffield) and 7 Asian language fonts (including support for the Hong Kong Supplementary character set)
• Adabas D database
• StarOffice-only templates and sample documents
• A large clip art gallery
• Sorting functionality for Asian versions
• File filters for additional older wordprocessing formats (including EBCDIC)
• A different spell checker (note that OpenOffice.org does include a spell checker as well) and thesaurus
• StarOffice Configuration Manager
• Macro Converter for converting Microsoft Office VBA-macros to StarBasic

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Other differences include: StarOffice only supports 10 languages (compared to over 25 for OpenOffice.org), and StarOffice is only available for the Windows, Linux, Solaris operating systems (while OpenOffice.org is available for 8 operating systems).

History

StarOffice was originally developed by the German company StarDivision in Lueneburg, founded by Marco Börries in 1984. They developed the first version of StarWriter for the Z80 home computer system, the Amstrad CPC (marketed by Schneider in Germany) under CP/M, and later for the Commodore 64 under Microsoft BASIC, which was later ported to the 8086-based Amstrad PC1512, running under MS-DOS 3.2. Later the integration of the other individual programs followed as the development progressed to an Office Suite for DOS and for Microsoft Windows, which was marketed from now on under the name "StarOffice." Map of Germany showing Lüneburg Lüneburg is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, about 50km southeast of Hamburg. ... This article is about the year. ... The Zilog Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor designed and manufactured by Zilog from 1976 onwards. ... The Amstrad CPC was a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad during the 1980s and early 1990s. ... Schneider may refer to: Schneider (surname) for the name and people Schneider, Indiana, a small town in the United States. ... CP/M was an operating system originally created for Intel 8080/85 based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. ... The Commodore 64 is the best-selling single personal computer model of all time. ... Microsoft BASIC is the foundation product of the Microsoft company. ... The Amstrad PC1512 was Amstrads mostly IBM PC-compatible home computer system, first manufactured in 1986. ... Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ...

The development of the integrated StarOffice started at the end of 1994. Until version 4.2, StarOffice was based on the platform independent C++ class library StarView. Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... C++ (pronounced see plus plus, IPA: ) is a general-purpose programming language with high-level and low-level capabilities. ... Illustration of an application which may use libvorbisfile. ...

The company, copyright and trademark of StarOffice were acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999 for US$73.5 million. Sun was seeking to compete with Microsoft Office, and also wanted to save money on licenses for Microsoft Office and Windows: This article is about the year. ... Microsoft Office is an office suite from Microsoft, which is available on the Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X operating systems. ...

The number one reason why Sun bought StarDivision in 1999 was because, at the time, Sun had something approaching forty-two thousand employees. Pretty much every one of them had to have both a Unix workstation and a Windows laptop. And it was cheaper to go buy a company that could make a Solaris and Linux desktop productivity suite than it was to buy forty-two thousand licenses from Microsoft. (Simon Phipps, Sun, LUGradio podcast)

Sun soon offered StarOffice 5.2 as a free download for personal use.

Sun then went through an exercise similar to Netscape's relicensing of Mozilla, by releasing most of the StarOffice source code under a free/open source license. The resultant free/open source software codebase is developed as OpenOffice.org, and is contributed to by both Sun and the wider OpenOffice.org community. Sun then takes a "snapshot" of the OpenOffice.org code base, integrates proprietary and third-party code modules, and markets the package commercially. Netscape Communications Corporation was the publisher of the Netscape Navigator web browser as well as many other internet and intranet client and server software products. ... Mozilla was the official, public, original name of Mozilla Application Suite by the Mozilla Foundation, nowadays called SeaMonkey suite. ... Free software is software which grants recipients the freedom to modify and redistribute the software. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... OpenOffice. ...

In September 2005, Sun released StarOffice 8, adding support for the OpenDocument standard and a number of improvements (based on the OpenOffice.org 2 code).

Pricing and licensing

Traditionally, StarOffice licenses have been sold for around 70 USD, but in 2004, Sun planned to offer subscription-based licenses to Japanese customers for about 1,980 JPY (17 USD) per year (Becker, 2004). P. Ulander, a desktop products manager for Sun, acknowledged that Sun planned to expand subscription-based licenses to other countries as well. To licence or grant licence is to give permission. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Japanese 10 yen coin (obverse) showing Phoenix Hall of Byodoin Yen is the currency used in Japan. ... A year (from Old English gēr) is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. ...

Sun uses a per-person license for StarOffice, compared to the per-processor licenses used for most proprietary software. An individual is allowed to install the software on up to five computers. For example, a small business owner can have the software on his laptop, office and home computers, or a user with a computer running Microsoft Windows, and another running Linux, can install StarOffice on both computers.

Sun offers educational licensing to academic institutions and individuals for the cost of the media or of a download. They also offer free web-based Training and an online tutorial for students and teachers, free support services for teachers including educational templates for StarOffice, and significantly discounted technical support for schools.

In August 2007, Google started offering StarOffice as a free download as part of its Google Pack application. August 2007 is the eighth month of that year. ... This article is about the corporation. ... Google Pack is a one-stop software package that helps you discover, install, and maintain a wide range of essential PC programs,[1] intended for buyers of new PCs. ...

See also

• List of office suites
• Comparison of office suites
• OpenOffice.org

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References

1. ^ Project and Technology FAQ - Overview. OpenOffice.org. Retrieved on 2007-04-09.

• Becker, D. (2004). Sun readies StarOffice subscription plan. Retrieved January 16, 2004.
• StarOffice homepage
• StarOffice Educational licenses
• StarOffice 7 vs. OpenOffice.org 1.1 comparison (PDF file)
• "StarOffice 8: StarOffice 8 Is Office's Toughest Rival Yet", Jason Brooks, eWeek Labs Review, September 27, 2005
• StarOffice 8 is Now Free