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Who owns OpenOffice?

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mrcal | 1 year, 6 months ago
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OpenOffice is an open source project and a product and so in that sense, it is not owned by anyone. However, there are some key people who sponsor OpenOffice and provide some of the key resources that make it happen.

OpenOffice was started by a group called StarDivision which wrote a product called StarOffice. StarDivision was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999. Sun was a key sponsor of the development of OpenOffice between 1999 until they were acquired by Oracle in 2009. After that point, Oracle became the key contributor and sponsor of the overall product and project. Additionally, all of the infrastructure and the website are hosted by CollabNet.
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pescina | 1 year, 6 months ago
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Oracle owns it. Open Office, originally a product of StarDivision, in Germany, was acquired by Sun Microsystems in August of 1999, which in turn was bought by Oracle in April of 2009 (completed acquiring it on January 27, 2010).

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It's developed mainly by Oracle Corporation, along with Novell, RedHat, RedFlag CH2000, IBM, Google and other companies.

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