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 ...

Citing its success with other donated projects, the Apache Software Foundation vowed to protect OpenOffice.org and prevent fragmentation. In a lengthy statement issued to naysayers and concerned ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The open-source office-productivity suite OpenOffice has a ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced that Apache ...

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 ...

Members of the Apache Software Foundation, as expected, voted last week to accept Oracle's contribution of OpenOffice.org source code for an incubation project. Fears apparently exist among the ...

When it comes to open source office suites, most people choose OpenOffice or LibreOffice, and they both look suspiciously similar. That isn’t surprising since they both started with exactly the same ...

Despite the LibreOffice fork, the Apache Software Foundation wants to maintain OpenOffice leadership Despite the growing momentum of the LibreOffice fork of OpenOffice, the Apache Software Foundation ...