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===Office suite===
In 1999, Sun acquired the German software company Star Division and with it the [[office suite]] [[StarOffice]], which Sun later released as [[OpenOffice.org]] under both [[GNU LGPL]] and the SISSL ([[Sun Industry Standards Source License]]). OpenOffice.org supported [[Microsoft Office]] file formats (though not perfectly), was available on many platforms (primarily Linux, Microsoft Windows, [[Mac OS X]], and Solaris) and was used in the [[open source community]].

The principal differences between StarOffice and OpenOffice.org were that StarOffice was supported by Sun, was available as either a single-user retail box kit or as per-user blocks of licensing for the enterprise, and included a wider range of fonts and document templates and a commercial quality spellchecker.<ref>{{cite web|title=Product Comparison|url=http://www.sun.com/software/star/openoffice/|work=Sun Microsystems|access-date=September 18, 2008|archive-date=August 24, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080824170011/http://www.sun.com/software/star/openoffice/|url-status=dead}}</ref>  StarOffice also contained commercially licensed functions and add-ons; in OpenOffice.org these were either replaced by open-source or free variants, or are not present at all. Both packages had native support for the [[OpenDocument]] format.

Derivatives of OpenOffice.org continue to be developed, these are [[LibreOffice]], [[Collabora Online]] and [[Apache OpenOffice]].