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RedOffice was a Chinese office suite based on OpenOffice.org developed by Red Flag Software.

History
In 2002 the Chinese government chose RedOffice instead of Microsoft Office, because of the newly developed Uniform Office Format (UOF) file format.

In May 2007 Sun Microsystems and Redflag Chinese 2000 Software announced a joint development effort releasing their source code to the upstream code of OpenOffice.org, mainly the localization and the new features which were developed by RedFlag. Additionally, Redflag sponsored around 50 engineers (who have been working on RedOffice since 2006) to the project.

After the discontinuation of the project, the developers are working and improving directly OpenOffice.

Features
As RedOffice was a OpenOffice distribution, it shared most features of OpenOffice. Out of the box, RedOffice included many templates and moreover got many praises about their new user interface in the RedOfffice 4.0 beta sharing the design ideas of Microsoft Office 2007's Ribbon improvements an Apple's Mac OS X tailored for the Chinese market.

RedOffice has popularized the Uniform Office Format file format in China.

Popularity
RedOffice was used by more than 100 local governments.