Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]
wrote:
StarOffice was not spun out. Oracle continued with an Oracle Open Office
for a time. They seem to have concluded that was not a sustainable
business.
- Dennis
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From: Girvin R. Herr [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 14:25
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: users Digest 28 Nov 2012 19:50:51 -0000 Issue 232
There is also another fork - StarOffice, the predecessor of OpenOffice.
http://staroffice.com/
Way back before OpenOffice, Sun purchased StarOffice from Star Division
and then made it open source as OpenOffice. The last I heard, Sun
Microsystems was still developing StarOffice as their income product,
where they sold it and bundled support in with it. Now I do not see any
connection between StarOffice and Oracle. Did Oracle get StarOffice when
they bought Sun or did Sun or Oracle spin it off? [ ... ]
TSK TSK TSK...
1. In the beginning, there was a German firm dubbed Stardivision Gmbh. They
produced a cross-platform office suite dubbed "StarOffice" which ran -back
then- on platforms like Windows 3.1x (16-bit windows), Windows 95 (32-bit
windows), OS/2 (32-bit IBM OS/2 Warp), and Linux/Unix too.
2. Sun bought Stardivision Gmbh. First making StarOffice "freeware"
(StarOffice 5.2) and then open sourcing it, thus creating OpenOffice.org.
3. Sun continued developing OpenOffice.org and StarOffice (the commercial
version of OO.o + proprietary add-ons like commercial spellchecker,
commercial clipart, commercial fonts), in parallel.
StarOffice 6.0 = OpenOffice 1.0x
StarOffice 7 = OpenOffice 1.1 (+add-ons)
Staroffice 7u8 = OpenOffice 2.1 (+add-ons)
StarOffice 8 = OpenOffice.org 2.4 (+ add-ons)
StarOffice 9 = OpenOffice.org 3.x (+ add-ons)
4. Oracle bought Sun, and choose to rename "StarOffice" to "Oracle Open
Office" (without the .org), while continuing to develop OO.o (up to 3.4
alpha AFAIR)
This is not different from IBM taking the Apache web server and regularly
building "IBM HTTP Server" based on Apache code
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/webservers/httpservers/
Then the freedom fighters at TDF choose to do their LO fork and we know how
that ended -or more appropiately, what that caused-. After OO.o had lost
half its devs (that´s my estimate) Oracle decided to kill its Oo.o dev and
the future of StarOffice along with it .
So, StarOffice is dead. Thank you, LO...
FC
PS: I ran StarOffice since version Stardivision StarOffice v3.1 for OS/2
and up to StarOffice 9 for Linux/Windows.
Dennis,
Thanks for the chronology update. It has filled in a lot of history
holes I had. I used StarOffice 6 way back when, until OpenOffice 1.0
came out. I must say that OO/LO has come a long way since then.
StarOffice may be dead, but there must still be some users out there to
support the website. However, it sounds like the website is also
dying. They are looking for advertisers to help support the web site's
costs. I also noticed one can still purchase StarOffice on ebay, but
that is not necessarily a sign of life.
Thanks again.
Girvin Herr
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