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also included a tool for composing mathematical equations.

contained a Word processor called Writer, a spreadsheet called Calc, a presentation application called Impress, and a database front-end tool that could be used with different back-end database engines. StarOffice was still sold and developed-benefiting from code contributions made by the community-and eventually reached around 100 million users. A year later, Sun released the StarOffice source code as an open-source product called. StarOffice was an office productivity suite developed by a German company called Star Division. There were many competing office suites-from companies such as Lotus, IBM, and Corel-but none came close to repeating the success of Microsoft Office. It was released in November 1990 and included Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint. The package office suite that rose to dominance was Microsoft Office. Costing less than the sum total of a mixed set of similar packages, the office suite took off and never looked back.

Instead of a set of unrelated standalone packages, an office productivity suite had a consistent look and feel, with easy integration between those packages. Office productivity suites completely changed the software landscape for the corporate PC.