My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.

The code consists mainly of the Python class OORunner which has methods for connecting to OpenOffice, for starting it, and for shutting it down. The code also keeps track of all the copies of ...

Novell Inc. posted an Open XML translator for the OpenOffice.org productivity suite today, making good on a December 2006 promise to add Microsoft Office 2007 file format capability to the open ...

OASIS calls for OpenOffice XML spec An array of companies working on Web services specifications is calling for a new open-source standard to handle desktop application documents.