It was later ported to the Amstrad CPC (marketed by Schneider in Germany) under CP/M and later ported to the 8086-based Amstrad PC-1512, running under MS-DOS 3.2. Börries formed Star Division in Lüneburg the following year. StarWriter 1.0 was written by Marco Börries in 1985 for the Zilog Z80. Logo Star-Division (extracted from the Manual of Star-Writer I) Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010, and the product was known briefly as Oracle Open Office before being discontinued in 2011, with Oracle turning into a 'purely community-based project'. StarOffice was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999, which released the source code the following year as a free, open source office suite called, which subsequent versions of StarOffice were based on, with additional proprietary components. The software originated in 1985 as StarWriter by Star Division, which marketed the suite with some success, primarily in Europe. It included templates, a macro recorder, and a software development kit (SDK). StarOffice supported the XML file format, as well as the OpenDocument standard, and could generate PDF and Flash formats. It served as the basis for open-source suites and LibreOffice. StarOffice is a discontinued proprietary office suite, intended to compete with the marketing-leading Microsoft Office.

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