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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Oracle Open Office known before 2010 as StarOffice is Oracle’s proprietary office suite software package. It was originally developed by StarDivision and acquired by Sun Microsystems in August 1999. The source code of the suite was released in July 2000, creating a free, open source office suite called OpenOffice.org; subsequent versions of StarOffice have been based upon OpenOffice.org, with additional proprietary components. StarSuite, the version of StarOffice with Asian language localization, included Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese interfaces. It also included additional fonts for the East Asian market, resulting in slightly larger installation footprint. Otherwise the features were identical to StarOffice. According to Sun Microsystems, the two brands existed because the StarOffice brand was owned by another company in certain Asian countries. Currently NEC produces StarOffice collaborative software in Japan. After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems (in January 2010) it re-named both StarOffice and StarSuite as “Oracle Open Office”. In 2001 Sun Microsystems announced Sun ONE Webtop – formerly known as project StarPortal – a limited release. It is based on StarOffice components. Oracle Open Office supports the XML file format, including (as of StarOffice the OpenDocument standard, and can generate PDF and Flash formats. The program comes with templates, a macro recorder, and a software development kit (SDK). For StarOffice Enterprise Edition only : There are also differences in the documentation, training and support options, and some minor differences in the look and icons between Oracle Open Office and OpenOffice.org. Other differences are that StarOffice only supports 12 languages, compared to over 110 for… More: http://booksllc.net/?id=68229

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