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OpenOffice was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice, which Sun Microsystems acquired in 1999 for internal use. Sun open-sourced the OpenOffice suite in July 2000 as a competitor to Microsoft Office,[14][15] releasing version 1.0 on 1 May 2002.[1]

OpenOffice.org originated as StarOffice, a proprietary office suite developed by German company Star Division from 1985 on. In August 1999, Star Division was acquired by Sun Microsystems[20][21] for US$59.5 million,[22] as it was supposedly cheaper than licensing Microsoft Office for 42,000 staff.[23]

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On 19 July 2000 at OSCON, Sun Microsystems announced it would make the source code of StarOffice available for download with the intention of building an open-source development community around the software and of providing a free and open alternative to Microsoft Office.[14][15][24] The new project was known as OpenOffice.org,[25] and the code was released as open source on 13 October 2000.[26] The first public preview release was Milestone Build 638c, released in October 2001 (which quickly achieved 1 million downloads[20]); the final release of OpenOffice.org 1.0 was on 1 May 2002.[1]

OpenOffice.org became the standard office suite on many Linux distros and spawned many derivative versions. It quickly became noteworthy competition to Microsoft Office,[27][28] achieving 14% penetration in the large enterprise market by 2004.[29]

After acquiring Sun in January 2010, Oracle Corporation continued developing OpenOffice.org and StarOffice, which it renamed Oracle Open Office,[42] though with a reduction in assigned developers.[43] Oracle's lack of activity on or visible commitment to OpenOffice.org had also been noted by industry observers.[44] In September 2010, the majority[45][46] of outside OpenOffice.org developers left the project,[47][48] due to concerns over Sun and then Oracle's management of the project[49][50][51] and Oracle's handling of its open source portfolio in general,[52] to form The Document Foundation (TDF). TDF released the fork LibreOffice in January 2011,[53] which most Linux distributions soon moved to.[54][55][56][57] In April 2011, Oracle stopped development of OpenOffice.org[17] and fired the remaining Star Division development team.[35][58] Its reasons for doing so were not disclosed; some speculate that it was due to the loss of mindshare with much of the community moving to LibreOffice[59] while others suggest it was a commercial decision.[35]

The mission of OpenOffice.org is 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 OpenOffice.org 2 series attracted considerable press attention.[152][153][154][155][156][157][158][159] A PC Pro review awarded it 6 stars out of 6 and stated: "Our pick of the low-cost office suites has had a much-needed overhaul, and now battles Microsoft in terms of features, not just price."[160] Federal Computer Week listed OpenOffice.org as one of the "5 stars of open-source products",[161] noting in particular the importance of OpenDocument. Computerworld reported that for large government departments, migration to OpenOffice.org 2.0 cost one tenth of the price of upgrading to Microsoft Office 2007.[162]

Large-scale users of OpenOffice.org included Singapore's Ministry of Defence,[180] and Banco do Brasil.[181] As of 2006[update] OpenOffice.org was the official office suite for the French Gendarmerie.[170]

Sun had stated in the original OpenOffice.org announcement in 2000 that the project would be run by a neutral foundation,[14] and put forward a more detailed proposal in 2001.[244] There were many calls to put this into effect over the ensuing years.[37][245][246][247] On 28 September 2010, in frustration at years of perceived neglect of the codebase and community by Sun and then Oracle,[69] members of the OpenOffice.org community announced a non-profit called The Document Foundation and a fork of OpenOffice.org named LibreOffice. Go-oo improvements were merged, and that project was retired in favour of LibreOffice.[248] The goal was to produce a vendor-independent office suite with ODF support and without any copyright assignment requirements.[249]

Sun's contributions to OpenOffice.org had been declining for a number of years[245] and some developers were unwilling to assign copyright in their work to Sun,[39] particularly given the deal between Sun and IBM to license the code outside the LGPL.[35] On 2 October 2007, Novell announced that ooo-build would be available as a software package called Go-oo, not merely a patch set.[266] (The go-oo.org domain name had been in use by ooo-build as early as 2005.[267]) Sun reacted negatively, with Simon Phipps of Sun terming it "a hostile and competitive fork".[37] Many free software advocates worried that Go-oo was a Novell effort to incorporate Microsoft technologies, such as Office Open XML, that might be vulnerable to patent claims.[268] However, the office suite branded "OpenOffice.org" in most Linux distributions, having previously been ooo-build, soon in fact became Go-oo.[260][269][270]

My personal distaste for the open office goes back to the turn of the millennium when I worked at several tech companies with open-office layouts. It was a tyranny of interruption, distraction, and stress. The quality of my work suffered immensely, and so did my mental wellbeing. I feel quite comfortable stating that I would never have been able to create Ruby on Rails or any of my other software or creative achievements in such an environment.

Now, an open office is a continuum. The absolute worst is when you have dozens of people from all different departments in the same room. Sales, marketing, support, administration, programmers, designers, what have you. These departments have very different needs for quiet or concentration or use of phones or open conversation. Mixing them together is peak bad open office design.

One CRO looked at me incredulously, thinking that is totally counter-intuitive. Open office environments theoretically were brought to the sales world to motivate and create more opportunities for collaboration, learning and celebration. Hearing someone making a prospecting call should motivate others to pick up the phone, and listening to those conversations are potential learning experiences.

The three traits of what is annoying for the brain are CREATED BY open office environments. As a result, productivity goes down. Headphones go on. Collaboration is reduced. Performance suffers. Less calls get made. The sound / conversation that others are having in their prospecting efforts is impossible to tune out for those within earshot because:

I am using pop on my laptop but I installed zorin os 16 on my desktop which comes with openoffice and coming from windows I much prefer it to libre. However when I open the pop shop or flathub.org I can't find it. is the only way to install it on pop by going directly to apache's website and downloading all the .deb installer files? is there a slightly easier way?

There was a time where it seemed like we barely even needed to talk about this: Joel had won the argument, the Internet agreed that private offices were the future, and only incompetent management (or a tight budget) was still putting developers in cubicle farms. A glorious future lay before us.

I just fixed this by going to the C:\Users\(UserName)\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice\4 folder and deleting the "user" folder when the OO program is closed down. On opening the program after the deletion, it asked for the name of the user again, once entered spell check was working as expected.

Thanks mabeadnell. I renamed the User folder and it fixed the "dictionary not working" problem. The problem that I had was this. I turned on auto spellcheck and it would underline incorrect spelling, butif I pressed it would say that the word couldn't be found. I am using OO 4.1.3, on Windoze 10. I looked for C:\Users\(UserName)\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice\4 but couldn't find it. The AppData folder was hidden, so I did a search (Cortana) for "show hidden files and folders". The File Explorer Options opened up to the View Tab. The option was set for "don't show hidden files, folders or drives". I changed it, AppData appeared. I clicked through the folder tree, found the "user file", renamed it "user.old", started OO, it asked for my username, and the dictionary started to work. Wahoo!

Once again I try to do a program from the book automate the boring stuff with python. page 266 starts the work with excel sheets. I imported the example sheet, which I downloaded. Worked. Then I createt my own sheet with open office, but I get an error. Whats the problem here? File type and path is the same, why I get an error?

edit: I downloaded the newest openoffice version in english (usually I would use german). I right click in the python folder and created new file, openoffice sheet. It creates a *.odt file first. I open it. I "save as" the file and type in the name 123.xlsx. It does not show me the file type xlsx available, thats why I type in the name directly. Maybe thats the problem. But the file gets saved without error and works, so I also dont see a problem in there.

Apache OpenOffice Portable is a full-featured office suite that's compatible with Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, Lotus and other office applications. It's easy-to-use and feature-rich, performing nearly all of the functions you'd expect in an office suite, but at no cost.

Traditionally, when we think of offices we think of claustrophobic cubicles. However the new trend in business is actually the opposite; the newest fad is to have an open office environment. If you've never heard of this term before, an open office is basically when there are no or low walls to divide coworkers. This trend may be seen as absurd, but according to the International Facility Management Association, it is sweeping the nation, because 70% of businesses report using an open office model. With that said, here are 4 reasons why you should create an open work environment for your business. ff782bc1db