History

• 1999

• • Development of StarOffice XML file format starts
  • • Primary goal: interoperability

• 2000

• • Foundation of OpenOffice.org and OpenOffice.org XML project
  • • Sun contributes StarOffice to OpenOffice.org
    • Name change to “OpenOffice.org XML”
    • OpenOffice.org XML becomes open source community project
  • First OpenOffice.org XML working draft available