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=OpenOffice.Org=
'''Open Office.org''' is a office suite program comparable to the venerable Microsoft Office. It features a word processing program, Spreadsheets,
slide show presentation and graphics. It is written in [[Java]] so hypothetically, it can run on any operating system that can support Java 6 or above. As of June 21 2011, it supports over 120 languages. It originally originated as StarOffice, made by StarDivision. Upon being taken over by Sun Microsystems, the same people who make Java, Open Office became the top competitor to Microsoft Office.
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=Components=
Open Office.org offers the following components:
*Writer, similar to Microsoft Office Word.
*Calc, a spreedsheet component with components not available in Microsoft Excel
*Impress, a slide show presentation, comparable with Apple Keynote
*Base, a database component.
*Draw, a vector graphics editor, similar to manual logarithimic scales, but specifically designed to render such equations
*Math, a mathmatical formulae comparable to Equation Editor.
Open Office saves all it's files in it's own specific extensions <small> eg .odt, .omt etc</small>
It can export to PDF documentations.<ref>www.openoffice.org/faq</ref>
=Marketing=
Sun Microsystems help distribute OpenOffice.org primarily as advertisements in Java Updates. In 2011, Sun and Google announced that in a partnership, in which OpenOffice searches through Google and Google helps distribute OpenOffice. Most tech rating groups reviewed it favourably<ref>www.google.com/openoffice</ref>.
==References==
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'''Open Office.org''' is a office suite program comparable to the venerable Microsoft Office. It features a word processing program, Spreadsheets,
slide show presentation and graphics. It is written in [[Java]] so hypothetically, it can run on any operating system that can support Java 6 or above. As of June 21 2011, it supports over 120 languages. It originally originated as StarOffice, made by StarDivision. Upon being taken over by Sun Microsystems, the same people who make Java, Open Office became the top competitor to Microsoft Office.
__TOC__
=Components=
Open Office.org offers the following components:
*Writer, similar to Microsoft Office Word.
*Calc, a spreedsheet component with components not available in Microsoft Excel
*Impress, a slide show presentation, comparable with Apple Keynote
*Base, a database component.
*Draw, a vector graphics editor, similar to manual logarithimic scales, but specifically designed to render such equations
*Math, a mathmatical formulae comparable to Equation Editor.
Open Office saves all it's files in it's own specific extensions <small> eg .odt, .omt etc</small>
It can export to PDF documentations.<ref>www.openoffice.org/faq</ref>
=Marketing=
Sun Microsystems help distribute OpenOffice.org primarily as advertisements in Java Updates. In 2011, Sun and Google announced that in a partnership, in which OpenOffice searches through Google and Google helps distribute OpenOffice. Most tech rating groups reviewed it favourably<ref>www.google.com/openoffice</ref>.
==References==
{{reflist}}