Then Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, and OpenOffice fell onto .
That, in turn, is what spawned the ; and I think it's fair to say that most users haven't looked back since.
Yes, Oracle ended up to the community via the (ASF); and yes, IBM has behind the effort.
Meanwhile, we've seen LibreOffice with the support of Google and most major distributions even as and have bogged down the OpenOffice side.