The transition of Apache OpenOffice to a Top-Level project from the incubator hopefully clears the way for speedier innovation for the cloud. It's not clear what the Apache folks are going to do for ...

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 ...

It used to be that OpenOffice.org was the leading open source alternative to proprietary productivity suites like Microsoft Office, and it was included in pretty much all the major Linux distributions ...

Microsoft’s Office may be the go-to productivity suite in the business world, but there’s apparently plenty of room out there for challengers to thrive: On Thursday, the Apache Software Foundation ...

OpenOffice, once the premier open source alternative to Microsoft Office, could be shut down because there aren't enough developers to update the office suite. Project leaders are particularly worried ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The open-source office-productivity suite OpenOffice has a ...

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 ...

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 ...

OpenOffice 4.0 comes with a handy sidebar that beats the feature overload issue by devoting room on the side of documents for feature controls In its first major revision in more than a year, the ...

Apache's OpenOffice suite supports almost three dozen languages through the installation of separate language packs. After you install a particular language, you can ...