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Vijith Pujari
Strategic Marketing Plan 2010
StarDivision, the original author of the StarOffice suite of software, was founded in
Germany in the mid-1980s. Its StarOffice product developed over the next decade
into a fully-fledged office productivity suite (spreadsheet, word processor, graphics,
presentations) comprising over 7.5 million lines of code, and equalling in
functionality the market-leading product (Microsoft Office).
The company was acquired by Sun Microsystems Inc during the summer of 1999,
and StarOffice 5.2 was released in June of 20001. That same year, Sun made the
momentous decision to open-source2 the product as OpenOffice.org 1.0 and kickstart
the OpenOffice.org Community (the Community) to support, develop, and
promote the software under open-source principles3. At the same time, Sun decided
to use the same codebase as the foundation for the continuing commercial
StarOffice product.
StarDivision, the original author of the StarOffice suite of software, was founded in
Germany in the mid-1980s. Its StarOffice product developed over the next decade
into a fully-fledged office productivity suite (spreadsheet, word processor, graphics,
presentations) comprising over 7.5 million lines of code, and equalling in
functionality the market-leading product (Microsoft Office).
The company was acquired by Sun Microsystems Inc during the summer of 1999,
and StarOffice 5.2 was released in June of 20001. That same year, Sun made the
momentous decision to open-source2 the product as OpenOffice.org 1.0 and kickstart
the OpenOffice.org Community (the Community) to support, develop, and
promote the software under open-source principles3. At the same time, Sun decided
to use the same codebase as the foundation for the continuing commercial
StarOffice product.