In addition to opening its own native .ODF file format, OpenOffice Calc can also open worksheets from other spreadsheet software such as Excel. According to Apache, when working with an Excel sheet in ...

Christian Schaller, a software engineering manager at Red Hat, has written an An Open Letter to Apache Foundation and Apache OpenOffice team to suggest that they "re-direct people who go to the ...

OpenOffice 4.0 was released yesterday by the Apache Software Foundation, bringing with it a new sidebar designed to make better use of widescreen monitors and improved compatibility with Microsoft ...

Apache OpenOffice is a viable alternative to Microsoft Office. Apache OpenOffice is a full suite of office applications: word processor, database, spreadsheet, presentation, and graphics. Each of them ...

As I reported on May 31st, 2011, Oracle has, with IBM's encouragement, given the open-source OpenOffice office suite to The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). IBM's Kevin Cavanaugh, VP of Collaboration ...

Analysis Last year Brett Porter, then chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, contemplated whether a proposed official blog post on the state of Apache OpenOffice (AOO) might discourage people ...

In its first major revision in more than a year, the Apache OpenOffice suite now comes with a sidebar, from which users can launch their favorite tools. “Over the years we saw the increased use of ...