July 22, 2008
OpenOffice.org is by far the one considered the closest match to Microsoft Office when working on a Linux environment. It is the world’s most widely distributed open-source multi-platform and multi-lingual productivity suite. This project was founded by Sun Microsystems which continues to make significant contributions as a community member.
Running equally well in other platforms such as Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X, it is offered in more than 100 languages, most of which are professionally supported. It was specifically released to the market with the aim of reducing the dominant market share of Microsoft Office through a free, open and high quality alternative. Although informally referred to as OpenOffice, the project had to adapt OpenOffice.org as its formal name since the trademark for OpenOffice is held by another party.
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