When databases became available for the personal computer in the mid-1980s, they quickly gained a mystique as the ultimate productivity applications. Despite their widespread use, in some ways they ...

Impress Tables are one of the most welcome features in the recently-released OpenOffice.org 3.0. Using them is straightforward, but they have their limitations, and you may miss one or two useful ...

OpenOffice.org is a two-year-old project, the result of more than a dozen volunteers’ efforts to create a software suite that contains a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, graphics app ...

The stand-alone database in OpenOffice.org's latest update is powerful enough to be compared to Microsoft's popular Access database.

After writing a column searching for Linux alternatives to Microsoft’s low-end database, Access, I received some great replies. Many readers pointed out the limitations of Microsoft Access, and ...

OpenOffice.org has patched a critical flaw in the free suite's database engine that could allow attackers to grab control of a computer. Users are being urged to update to 2.3.1.