OpenOffice, on the other hand, has a wide base of non-technical users. First released in 2001, the software was created as an open source alternative to commercial office suite products, most ...

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 reigning champ: LibreOffice 4.1 It’s somewhat astonishing how quickly LibreOffice grabbed the spotlight from its older brother, but at least some of the blame belongs to the way OpenOffice ...

The OpenOffice software project is "not at risk", the Apache Software Foundation has said, after some members of OpenOffice.org publicly called for donations.

The code base for the sidebar actually came from IBM’s short-lived Lotus Symphony office suite, which was a 2007 fork of OpenOffice that IBM contributed back to OpenOffice in 2012.

An improvement on OpenOffice 3.0 and good for a free product, but some people will find it awkward to use Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so ...

Oracle is submitting the code base for OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation, where the productivity suite will live on in the group’s incubator program for open source software ...

More details have emerged about the forthcoming cloud-based version of Apache OpenOffice (AOO). A cloud version of OpenOffice writer, AOO's document editor, was shown at a presentation at the ...

Many are wondering why Oracle chose to deliver OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation instead of The Document Foundation. A little look back in history reveals the true winner of this ...

The Apache Software Foundation announced that OpenOffice is now an Apache top-level project.