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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Upcoming 2.0.4 version of the open-source office suite is designed to make plug-in extensions easier to write and manage. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Apache Software Foundation has announced that OpenOffice has passed the milestone of 100 million downloads in less than two years since it became one of the main projects of the foundation. Given the ...

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The OpenOffice software project is "not at risk", the Apache Software Foundation has said, after some members of OpenOffice.org publicly called for donations. The document creation software was made ...

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 word ...

Apache's OpenOffice software suite allows you to insert complex graphics into your business publications using Encapsulated PostScript files. EPS files contain vector-based text and graphics that you ...

Microsoft is getting ready to ship Office 2010, but a lot of small businesses realize they don’t need all the features (or licensing costs) that come with Microsoft Office. The front-runners for ...

The free OpenOffice software suite is a valuable tool for businesses that need to keep software costs down, but need the ability to create documents and spreadsheets. Like other spreadsheet software, ...

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