Item description from the seller
This is a New un-opened CD It is the evaluation software of the StarOffice 7 Suite.
StarOffice 7 was a commercial office suite, not a free software program, though it had a close relationship with the free and open-source OpenOffice.org. While not free, it was significantly more affordable than Microsoft Office. Sun Microsystems, which later became part of Oracle, initially sold StarOffice for around $70 and release an evaluation version for businesses and corporations.
It included a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, database, and other tools. Later, Sun offered the software for free through Google Pack, but only for Windows users.
Some History/Trivia
StarOffice was born in 1985 (with the original name of StarWriter) as a commercial alternative to WordStar and developed by StarDivision, a German company founded that year in Lüneburg by Marco Börries (then sixteen years old) with the first proceeds of the program. StarDivision was then purchased by Sun Microsystems in August 1999 for 73.5 million dollars. Sun's strategy was to provide an alternative to the Microsoft Office product, the most popular software of this type on the market. In 2000, Sun decided to release the sources of StarOffice to the open source community, and so the OpenOffice.org project was born. This strategy allowed Sun to access rapid development with lower costs.
What is in this Star Office CD Hard to get this piece of historical software now!
StarOffice 7 included features like a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing tool, and database. It also supported exporting documents to PDF and Flash formats, and included a macro recorder and a software development kit. It was known for its lower price point compared to competitors like Microsoft Office, and for its strong support for various file formats, including Microsoft Office formats and the OpenDocument standard.
Today
StarOffice7 is not available for purchase or download today. It is a discontinued product. Sun Microsystems, which owned StarOffice, released it as a commercial product, but later transitioned to an open-source model with OpenOffice.org. StarOffice 7, specifically, was released in 2003. Today, its legacy lives on in LibreOffice, which is actively developed and considered the spiritual successor to StarOffice and OpenOffice
