The open source productivity application OpenOffice.org has been downloaded almost 50 million times since the project was started, according to the company that founded the project, Sun. Erwin ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s Office may be the go-to productivity suite in the business world, but there’s apparently plenty of room out there for challengers to thrive: On Thursday, the Apache Software Foundation ...

According to OpenOffice.org evangelist John McCreesh, the free office productivity suite has seen more than 5m downloads since it was made available two weeks ago. A week ago, McCreesh blogged that ...

Apache's OpenOffice suite supports almost three dozen languages through the installation of separate language packs. After you install a particular language, you can ...

An official announcement is hard to find, but Sean Coffey of Sun Microsystems says OpenOffice.org has crossed the 100 million-download mark: As of Aug. 25, OpenOffice.org had counted up 98 million ...

The impressive open-source office software suite, OpenOffice, a free alternative to Microsoft’s office desktop software, has reported over 300 million people have downloaded the application since its ...

Fans of the OpenOffice.org office suite can download three free chapters from the new book, The OpenOffice.org 2 Guidebook. The chapters, available from the author's web site in PDF format, are as ...