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, ...
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 ...
Oracle suddenly announced Wednesday it was submitting the codebase for OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation, ending speculation about the open-source productivity suite’s fate following ...
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 ...
Oracle Corp. calmed the fears of tens of millions of OpenOffice.org users when it declared it would keep supporting the free open-source productivity suite following its merger with Sun Microsystems ...
OpenOffice.org extensions are a quick way to add functionality. Writable in a variety of languages, including Java, JavaScript, OpenOffice.org Basic, Python, and C++, they allow developers to ...
It appears that X11 1.1.3 resolves a previously reported issue that prevents launching of OpenOffice.org. However, Shaun McDonald of the OpenOffice.org Mac porting team lets us know that there still ...
Ulteo this week launched its service into beta and is looking for 15,000 testers. Its promise: to give you portable, Web-based OpenOffice.org applications including Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base ...
OpenOffice.org’s biggest foe may be Microsoft Office, but critics say the open-source organization has, from its inception, also been one of its application suite’s own worst enemies — a victim of a ...
OpenOffice and other open-source projects are hobbled by their corporate masters. It's time to open up OpenOffice for its own good. Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET ...
The latest version of the open-source office suite OpenOffice.org 3.1 has just arrived, and it’s a good one. While some of the improvements are visible to the naked eye, I found that the most ...
With Microsoft’s Office suite now being targeted by hackers, researchers at the French Ministry of Defense say users of the OpenOffice.org software may be at even greater risk from computer viruses.