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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft Office apps like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc. are loaded with features; but, practically getting used to all of them would take weeks of training. Then there’s one feature that most of us ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...