Searching for a free desktop alternative to Microsoft Office? Look no further than LibreOffice and OpenOffice. These two open-source productivity suites are both great choices if you’re looking to ...

Programmers gave Oracle's OpenOffice a good code-scrubbing to build the LibreOffice 3.3 offshoot. Expect more visible changes with 3.4 later this year. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Less than two weeks ago, Oracle said that it was behind OpenOffice, a stance that is hard to reconcile with this weekend's news that it has asked 33 OpenOffice developers to leave the company. With ...

A few days ago the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced that Apache OpenOffice had graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP). That's nice but will be it enough to ...

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 ...

OpenOffice.org is one of the leading competitors to the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity applications. Originally developed as StarOffice in the late 1990s, the suite had been managed ...

If you are one of the people that happens to be running a bleeding-edge 'alpha 1' version of Ubuntu Linux on your main desktop machine (and who isn't?), you may have noticed a particular change in ...

More than two years after LibreOffice came into being, it's hard to call the open source office software anything but a success. There are possibly tens of millions of people who use it—or at least ...

Oracle-owned OpenOffice.org and independent LibreOffice are both nearing their freely available 3.3.0 versions and show their wares with recent release candidates. Commercial OpenOffice.org 3.3 was ...