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OpenOffice was a productivity suite developed by OpenOffice.Org in conjunction with Sun Microsystems, a historic UNIX company now owned by database firm Oracle. OpenOffice was derived from the StarOffice suite marked by Sun. OpenOffice was available for many operating systems including UNIX/Linux

Mainline OpenOffice development stagnated in some areas so a project called "Go-oo" has developed improvements, eventually problems struck the OpenOffice project so severely that the future of the project is currently uncertain.

OpenOffice includes a word-processor, spread-sheet, presentation software and other office tools. OpenOffice is at feature parity with MS Office 2000. Unfortunately it is not quite at feature parity with more recent versions of MS Office and its weird licensing situation and Oracle/Sun Microsystem's various problems are part of the reason for this.

Late in 2010 a large number of OpenOffice.org community members resigned in protest of poor community relations, the stagnation of the product and Oracle's maladministration of the project. These persons exited to newly formed "The Document Foundation" and are beginning development on a hopefully much improved product and development community.

In a bizarre, passive-aggressive move, Oracle 'donated' the Openoffice project to The Apache Software Foundation, a major open source organization.

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