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 ...

Oracle has ceded control of the OpenOffice.org code base to the Apache Software Foundation Incubator project, it announced on Wednesday. OpenOffice.org is the most popular free productivity suite, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...