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 ...

Oracle has given the OpenOffice office suite to Apache, with IBM's blessing. The Document Foundation, creators of the LibreOffice, an OpenOffice fork, can live with this move.

A conflict between free-software supporters and OpenOffice.org over the use of Suns proprietary implementation of Java in the forthcoming OpenOffice.org 2.0 is on its way to being resolved.

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 ...

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 ...

Apache OpenOffice logo Wakefield, MA, Oct. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source ...

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Microsoft Corp. should feel supremely complimented by the OpenOffice.org suite of software. And, perhaps, just a tad worried. OpenOffice's sleek ...

IBM, which has been an outspoken critic of Microsoft’s OOXML format, has officially joined the OpenOffice community to collaborate on the development of OpenOffice software. IBM already uses ...

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.

The OpenOffice software is a "thick client" desktop suite, comparable to Microsoft Office. IBM chose to build its Workplace rich client software to be delivered via a Web portal, he said.