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The rise and fall of OpenOffice.org
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The rise and fall of
and the birth of the
Star Division GmbH
When we were stars
Everything under the
The Year of Decay
Oracle
1986-1997
brought to you by
1997 - 2009
Sun
1999
1995
1997
1996
1993
1994
1986
2007
2003
2002
2005
StarOffice 5.2
[...]
„In addition, Sun also announced today the new OpenOffice.org Foundation […] Sun will hold a equal membership position in the OpenOffice.org Foundation project management committee.“
but they lied
StarOffice 8
StarOffice 9
StarOffice 7
StarOffice 6
StarBase
StarOffice
StarWriter
founder and developer
Marco Börries
StarImpress
StarOffice 3.1
(with HTML and browser)
(Writer, Image, Calc, Chart)
Sun acquisition
StarWriter (DOS)
SISSL
Double licensing
open the code
LGPL
70M USD
Prologue
OpenOffice.org 3.2.1
Oracle acquisition
fired the OOo team
Sun Developer Agreement
Give me your code!
2000
joined ...again
2007
2001
2005
2003
2002
2007
2010
3.0
2011
joined to the project
first release
no more SISSL
first stable release: 1.0
2.0 ODF support, Base, new UI
1.1 PDF-export, macro recorder
all Linux distribution used it
Troubles in the project
Michael Meeks
ownership questions
long QA processes
bureaucracy
2006
2008
2010, Budapest
526k lines of OOo code removed
290k lines of code added
based on OOo 1.1.4
IBM Symphony
the big fork based on SISSL
based on OOo 3
IBM fork to Symphony
which license?
?
?
?
How good was the QA in the OpenOffice.org project?
real open source project