Despite the growing momentum of the LibreOffice fork of OpenOffice, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is urging the community of volunteer developers to rally around the OpenOffice code base as the ...

Oracle announced a proposal this week to transfer the OpenOffice.org (OOo) project to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The move would put OOo under the umbrella of the Apache Incubator program ...

It used to be that OpenOffice.org was the leading open source alternative to proprietary productivity suites like Microsoft Office, and it was included in pretty much all the major Linux distributions ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lotus Symphony is a free office suite that IBM has been offering for the past few years. While the software is based on OpenOffice.org, it’s been largely maintained as an independent fork, and much of ...

Now that Apache OpenOffice 3.4 has been released, IBM has begun to take formal steps to re-integrate its Lotus Symphony fork of OpenOffice.org back into the OpenOffice mainline. These steps officially ...

Oracle is submitting the code base for OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation, where the productivity suite will live on in the group’s incubator program for open source software initiatives ...

Too few volunteers even to patch major security flaws following LibreOffice "fork" Apache is considering closing OpenOffice, the open-source office applications suite, because the project now has too ...

The question of what Oracle (news, site) is going to do with the OpenOffice.org (OOo) code has finally been resolved with an announcement today that it will be giving it to the Apache Foundation (news ...