[ Thanks to Lee Schlesinger for this link. ]
Both products are suites of office applications,
comprising word process, spreadsheet, presentation graphics,
database, drawing, and math tools. Both also spring from the same
code base. OpenOffice.org was created by a German company called
Star Division, which Sun Microsystems bought in 1999.Originally the suite was called StarOffice, and it was popular
in the European market as an alternative to Microsoft Office. After
picking it up, Sun changed the name of the product to
OpenOffice.org and released its code as open source. The product
retained some popularity in the enterprise, partly because of its
cross-platform capabilities and no-cost license.