StarOffice

StarOffice is now Sun Microsystems' commercial office suite. While Sun's version of StarOffice was freely available for personal use, Sun went through a similar exercise to Netscape's release of Mozilla by open-sourcing portions of the StarOffice code-base. The resultant open-source codebase is developed as OpenOffice.org, and it is contributed to by both Sun and the open source community. Sun then uses a 'snapshot ' of the OpenOffice code base as the basis for future releases of StarOffice. Sun then integrates proprietary and 3rd-party code modules and markets the package commercially.