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Sun Microsystems partially funds the development of OpenOffice.org to be able to use it as a base for its commercial version of OpenOffice (i.e. StarOffice) and also includes few additional components to make the StarOffice worth buying.
Based on its mission statement, goal of open office is "''To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format.''"
OO.o is available on following platforms: Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac, BSD, OpenVMS, OS/2 and IRIX.
