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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OpenOffice is different from other Apache projects in a number of ways, the ASF admitted. For instance, OpenOffice, in terms of both users and developers, is larger than the typical Apache project.