OpenOffice<p><strong><span>OpenOffice.org</span></strong><span><span> </span></span><span>(<strong>OOo</strong>), commonly known as<span> </span><strong>OpenOffice</strong>, was an<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span>open-source</span></a><span> </span><span>office suite</span>. It was an open-sourced version of the earlier<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span>StarOffice</span></a>, acquired <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span>Sun Microsystems</span></a> Sun open-sourced the software as a competitor to<span> </span>Microsoft Office.<span> </span>The project was closed by<span> </span>Oracle Corporation, the then-owner of Sun. Active successor projects include<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span>Apache OpenOffice</span></a>,<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span>LibreOffice</span></a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeoOffice" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span>NeoOffice</span></a>.</span></p> <p><span>OpenOffice.org's default<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_format" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span>file format</span></a><span> </span>was the<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span>OpenDocument</span></a><span> </span>Format (ODF), an<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span>ISO</span></a>/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Electrotechnical_Commission" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><span>IEC</span></a><span> </span>standard, which originated<span> </span>with OpenOffice.org. It could also read a wide variety of other file formats, with particular attention to those from Microsoft Office.</span></p>