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OOo is based on the code from an older version of StarOffice that was acquired and made open source by Sun Microsystems with the aim of breaking the market dominance of Microsoft Office and allowing Sun access to rapid development at reduced cost. It also allowed the general public a version of StarOffice that was free including the source code.
According to its Mission Statement, the OpenOffice.org project aims "To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format."
The project aims to compete with Microsoft Office and emulate Microsoft Office's look and feel where suitable. It is also able to import from and export to almost all Microsoft Office file formats. The ability to read and write Microsoft Office file formats is the most important feature of OOo for many of its users.
The primary development platforms for OOo are Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and SolarisThe Solaris Operating Environment (OE) Solaris is a computer operating system, the proprietary Unix variant developed by Sun Microsystems (Solaris is slated to be released under on OSI certified Open-Source license with the release of Solaris 10 by the fi, with ports available or in progress for OS/2OS/2 is an operating system created by Microsoft and IBM and later developed by IBM exclusively. The name stands for "Operating System/2", because it was intended as the preferred operating system for IBM's " Personal System/2 ( PS/2)" line of second-gene and many Unix-like operating systemIn computing, an operating system OS is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations, as well as running application software such as word processing programs and web browsers. In general, ts. There is a version of OOo 1.1.2 for Mac OS X, which requires the use of X11.
OOo Version 1.1 includes:
OOo can, with some effort, be configured to integrate with databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, so as to offer similar functionality to Microsoft Access. OOo 1.1 also includes Quick Starter, a system tray application which occupies around 64MB of memory, but improves the launch time by preloading application libraries into memory in the background and then bringing up the user interface when launched.
OOo 1.0 was widely criticized for its performance and memory footprint compared with Office 97 or Office 2000. With OOo 1.1 both problems have been somewhat alleviated, but it remains notoriously large and slow. [1]
The suite is currently available in 25 different languages. Further translations by the development community are underway.
OOo has become a serious competitor to the dominant Microsoft Office application suite. Microsoft has publicly acknowledged OOo and denounced its usefulness — when an Israeli employment agency announced plans to switch from using Microsoft Office to OOo, an unnamed Microsoft representative was quoted as saying "The employment agency has selected an immature and unproven software package." [2] Microsoft has also published a competitive guide for its value-added reseller channel on how to market Microsoft Office over OOo. [3] [4] Although Microsoft Office retains 95% of the general market, OOo and StarOffice have secured 14% of the large enterprise market. [5]
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