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LibreOffice Is One

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 5, 2011

“Once in the mists of time, I was the head of open source at Sun
Microsystems. One of my chief delights in that role was the
OpenOffice.org project. I attended the Open Source Convention
(OSCON) in Monterey, California in 2000 where the project was
created out of a product Sun had acquired the previous year,
StarOffice.

I watched as it grew in polish and capability. I also helped as
it submitted its ideas to the OASIS standards group for an “Open
Office Document Format”, a project that evolved into ODF and
changed the world of enterprise document handling.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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