Despite the growing momentum of the LibreOffice fork of OpenOffice, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is urging the community of volunteer developers to rally around the OpenOffice code base as the ...

Christian Schaller, a software engineering manager at Red Hat, has written an An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team to suggest that they "re-direct people who go to the ...

There’s been much uncertainty surrounding OpenOffice.org ever since Oracle decided back in June to donate the open source office productivity project to the Apache Software Foundation. Given that the ...

An open-source office suite (business applications) from The Apache Software Foundation that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. OpenOffice supports Microsoft and OpenDocument file formats. Sun acquired ...

Lotus Symphony is a free office suite that IBM has been offering for the past few years. While the software is based on OpenOffice.org, it’s been largely maintained as an independent fork, and much of ...

Apache OpenOffice's ability to print multiple pages on one sheet of paper helps reduce printing costs and is an ideal way to create thumbnail copies of large documents. Once you select the ...

Its free licensing and robust software suite make Apache OpenOffice a boon for small businesses who don't have the budget to outfit their office with commercial software. It's also versatile: While ...

Once, whenever you referred to the free productivity suite that competes with Microsoft Office, people knew exactly which program you were talking about. Lately, though, OpenOffice — formerly of ...

In its new role as steward of the OpenOffice.org open source office suite, the Apache Software Foundation expects to offer an Apache-branded version of the package for developers in 2012. Apache also ...

LibreOffice, an open source clone of Microsoft Office, has patched a bug that allowed attackers to execute commands of their choosing on vulnerable computers. A similar flaw in Apache OpenOffice ...

One of the questions would be why didn’t Oracle toss the code over to The Document Foundation, which is currently the maintainer of LibreOffice, the OpenOffice.org-forked office suite. On the surface ...