Searching for a free desktop alternative to Microsoft Office? Look no further than LibreOffice and OpenOffice. These two open-source productivity suites are both great choices if you’re looking to ...

When I first started using Linux, way back in the last century, one of the biggest challenges was the lack of a decent productivity suite of the sort to which every Windows user is accustomed. The ...

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 ...

More than two years after LibreOffice came into being, it's hard to call the open source office software anything but a success. There are possibly tens of millions of people who use it—or at least ...

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 ...

OpenOffice, the open-source office productivity suite maintained by Oracle, has forked into two separate projects. A community-based offshoot known as LibreOffice will be developed by a newly formed ...

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 ...

It appears that LibreOffice and OpenOffice will remain separate. Currently, there is no plan to merge the two projects back together, and LibreOffice will not be renamed a fourth time, according to a ...

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 ...

Less than two weeks ago, Oracle said that it was behind OpenOffice, a stance that is hard to reconcile with this weekend's news that it has asked 33 OpenOffice developers to leave the company. With ...