Microsoft is getting ready to ship Office 2010, but a lot of small businesses realize they don’t need all the features (or licensing costs) that come with Microsoft Office. The front-runners for ...

OpenOffice.org is now officially part of the Apache family. The project is known as Apache OpenOffice.org (incubating). Over its 12-year history, the ASF has welcomed contributions from individuals ...

Ars took a first look at OpenOffice.org 3 back in May when it was but a wee beta. Now that the open source office suite has been officially released, Ulteo has upgraded its free "OpenOffice.org Online ...

The OpenOffice.org office productivity suite has had something of a wild ride ever since it fell into Oracle’s hands with the acquisition of Sun early last year, and now it looks like that ride may be ...

After going premium and suffering some community fragmentation, the OpenOffice.org open source office suite is being taken in a new direction by a company named Ulteo. A brainchild of Gael Duval, ...

When Oracle, IBM, and the Apache Software Foundation jointly announced last week that OpenOffice.org would become an official Apache project, some open-source developers were not happy. The Document ...

A few weeks ago I joined the free software camp, replacing my trusty and mostly reliable, Microsoft Office with the 1.0 release of OpenOffice.org. By free, I mean OpenOffice.org is an open source, ...

Give your Writer documents, Calc spreadsheets, and Impress presentations more impact by using the great add-ons for the productivity suite. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as ...

Oracle has released a proposal that would transfer open source office suite OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation. Should this happen, OpenOffice.org will become a part of the Apache ...

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 ...