In 2010 Sun Microsystem was purchased from Oracle. Lotus Symphony was not open source, although it was free and had a Linux version. As a curious fact, in addition to the usual applications, it included a browser. Lotus Symphony included an improved user interface with a side toolbar and support for macros in Visual Basic and OLE technologies. Based on the Apache OpenOffice 3.0 source code. In 2010, under an agreement with Sun, IBM developed its own office suite called Lotus Symphony. Go-OO, by incorporating improvements that Sun did not support, provided better compatibility with Microsoft Office formats and was installed by default on popular distributions such as Debian and Ubuntu. That is why the Novell company started a spin-off project known as Go-oo or Go-OpenOffice.

According to many developers who collaborated on the project at the time, Sun delayed approval of outside contributions to preserve its rights to close the code and sell it. OpenOffice was never really competitive with Microsoft Office. Sun was the main supporter of the community development of OpenOffice, using its source code plus proprietary components to build subsequent versions of StarOffice. One year after the acquisition, Sun released the source code and thus OpenOffice was born in 2002. In 1998, a year before being acquired by Sun Microsystem, the developer company began offering StarOffice for free. Over the years, it incorporates new programs and is ported to other platforms under the name of StarOffice. Both are descendants of StarWriter, a word processor for the CP/M platform. The origins of OpenOffice and LibreOffice date back to the XNUMXs. Since this is a performance comparison and not a performance comparison, installation under similar conditions is not required.

In the case of OpenOffice version 4.1.11 was used downloaded from their website and manually installed on Linux Mint 20.3 Cinnamon desktop. The latest version of the website is 7.3.0.

This comparison is being made with LibreOffice 7.2.5.2 which is the one pre-installed in Ubuntu Studio 22.04 (still under development).

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