With the upcoming StarOffice 6 technology, the next generation architecture of separate applications and componentized services will be introduced.' However, the current release of StarOffice remains at Version 5.2. 'We decided that the best way to move the Mac product forward was to open-source it,' Sun's Roth explained.Īt the time, Sun said that the move to open source would result in OpenOffice being available 'for all major platforms, including Solaris Operating Environment, Windows, Linux and, later in the year, the Macintosh.' It also predicted that 'StarOffice 6, the next version currently in development, will serve as the source code base for. In July 2000, Sun announced that it was opening the StarOffice source code. The Web site quoted a public relations manager at the San Francisco firm of Burson-Marsteller: 'Sun is planning a Mac port, and a schedule will be announced when the requirements have been reviewed.' But that company later ended its relationship with Sun, and a final, commercial version of StarOffice for the Mac did not see the light of day. However, the project met developmental delays, and in August of 1999 Sun purchased Star Division, complete with StarOffice.īy early 2000, reports of a planned Macintosh version of StarOffice resurfaced. Recent weblog postings from the official Apache. Recent news articles from the Apache OpenOffice homepage. Send an empty email to and just reply to the returned email. Please subscribe to the users mailing list.

The English version was scheduled to ship in early 1996, soon after Windows 95 and OS/2 versions all three were expected to cost about half the price of Microsoft's Office products. Get the latest Apache OpenOffice release for your MacOS X.

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