When I first started using Linux, way back in the last century, one of the biggest challenges was the lack of a decent productivity suite of the sort to which every Windows user is accustomed. The ...

As I reported on May 31st, 2011, Oracle has, with IBM's encouragement, given the open-source OpenOffice office suite to The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). IBM's Kevin Cavanaugh, VP of Collaboration ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apache OpenOffice is a viable alternative to Microsoft Office. Apache OpenOffice is a full suite of office applications: word processor, database, spreadsheet, presentation, and graphics. Each of them ...

Irene Okpanachi is a Features writer, covering mobile and PC guides that help you understand your devices. She has five years' experience in the Tech, E-commerce, and Food niches. Particularly, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now that Apache OpenOffice 3.4 has been released, IBM has begun to take formal steps to re-integrate its Lotus Symphony fork of OpenOffice.org back into the OpenOffice mainline. These steps officially ...

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced that Apache OpenOffice has a value of $21 million a day. ASF officials said Apache OpenOffice has averaged 131,455 downloads per day since its 3.4 ...