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A Windows application?!?A Windows application?!?Posted Apr 20, 2005 4:19 UTC (Wed) by chohman (subscriber, #5519)Parent article: Lack of developers delays OpenOffice.org (ComputerWorld)
"For something that was originally written for Windows 3.1 and OS/2, the fact that it now runs on Linux and Solaris is a significant achievement"
I'm sorry, but my memory says that Star Office was developed, over the course of some 14 years, as a *nix office suite by a German company called StarDivision.
Oh, look - to quote OpenOffice.org's history notes:
They sure did manage that port in a hurry, didn't they.
The StarOffice 3.1 Mini-HOWTO (circa 1997) tells us "The StarOffice Office Suite is a collection of office tools for Linux, written in C using the Motif toolkit".
This doesn't sound a lot like a Windows/OS/2 application to me, but perhaps I'm missing a piece of the history. Comments?
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A Windows application?!? Posted Apr 20, 2005 7:26 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] StarOffice was first published for PC-class machines. They used aproprietary compatibility layer to make it run on various operating systems. I think Windows and OS/2 were first, and Linux later. My girlfriend used a program called StarWriter to write her master's thesis on an Atari ST, but I'm not sure about the relationship, if there was any, between that program and StarOffice. Anselm
A Windows application?!? Posted Apr 20, 2005 11:46 UTC (Wed) by alain (subscriber, #7119) [Link] StarWriter is a part of StarOffice. Version 3.1 was the first version of StarOffice running on Linux. The compatibility layer was ported by an employer in his free time. It must have been about '96 or '97.
The whole german Linux community was glad, because until then the only Wordprocessor was WordPerfect via the SCO compatibility layer. Shortly afterwards ApplixWare was available.
Another big bonus was that StarOffice 3.1 for Linux was free (as in beer) for non-commercial use.
A Windows application?!? Posted Apr 20, 2005 15:37 UTC (Wed) by evgeny (subscriber, #774) [Link] > It must have been about '96 or '97.> Shortly afterwards ApplixWare was available.
I have "Applixware for Red Hat LINUX" manual in front of me. It's printed in Novemeber 1995. Can't find the installation CD anymore, though.
A Windows application?!? Posted Apr 21, 2005 13:16 UTC (Thu) by jedidiah (guest, #20319) [Link] The key point here is that StarOffice was cross platform long before Sun got it's grubby little paws on it.
A Windows application?!? Posted Apr 20, 2005 17:39 UTC (Wed) by and (subscriber, #2883) [Link] > I'm sorry, but my memory says that Star Office was developed, over the> course of some 14 years, as a *nix office suite by a German company > called StarDivision. If my memory doesn't play tricks to me, StarOffice was indeed first written for windows 3.1. In fact there may have even been a DOS version, but this was well before i got in touch with computers. The first port to linux was done by some StarDivision employees in a conspiratorial way. (IIRC one of them was Kalle Dalheimer who later played a major role in the KDE project.) This first port was never officially released and was based on MOTIF (and required a proprietary motif runtime environment which i couldn't affort at that time. ;-) The first official port was already based on StarDivision's own widget set.
A Windows application?!? Posted Apr 26, 2005 12:53 UTC (Tue) by kreutzm (subscriber, #4700) [Link] Well, I sure was able to buy a special Motif licences back then from SuSE to run StarOffice. So maybe the port was not fully official, but at least SuSE provided it and charged for motif (only).
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