This is how OpenOffice came into existence, a free and open source office suite. Sun Microsystems bought it in the year 1999 and released its source code the next year. OpenOffice was born as Star Office in 1985. We’ll see the proposed ‘retirement plan’ but before that let’s see the history of OpenOffice, why OpenOffice is dying and why it not surprising or shocking. Until now.ĭannis Hamilton, vice president of Apache Open Office, finally sent an email indicating its retirement plan. It’s the writing on the wall which many of were afraid to look at. We all knew that this day would come one day. One of the best open source alternatives to Microsoft Office, Apache OpenOffice might be shut down.īut this doesn’t come as a surprise, not to me and not should it be to anyone who keeps a keen eye on open source world.
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