Open Office

The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 3.5.0 FINAL, its cross-platform, open-source office suite. Version 3.5.0 introduces a number of new features, including faster grammar checking, multi-line input bar in Calc, and a better user interface for headers and footers in Writer. LibreOffice is a spin-off of OpenOffice, and comprises word processor (Writer), spreadsheet (Calc), presentations package (Impress), database...  

BANGALORE, INDIA: OpenOffice: OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing ... LibreOffice:; The free power-packed Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature ...  

All the way back in June, we covered Oracle's announcement that it would move OpenOffice.org to a community-based project overseen by the Apache Software Foundation. Oracle, of course, inherited OpenOffice as part of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, in addition to many other open source projects that Oracle suddenly controlled. At the time of Oracle's announcement, The Document Foundation said that there would be no merger of the...  

IBM’s relationship with Openoffice.org goes all the way back to 1997. Ten years later, that finally led the computing giant to offer up a whole new Lotus product, Lotus Symphony, which was itself based upon the Openoffice.org codebase. The move came as a bit of a shock to plenty of folks in the IT business [...]  

OpenOffice is becoming increasingly popular in the workplace as a cost-cutting measure for IT departments that want to eliminate the expense of maintaining Microsoft OFfice licenses. This financial savings doesn’t come without a few potential quirks. For instance, if you use Microsoft Office on your home computer, the default file format used by OpenOffice, .ODT, [...]  

In reply to Just How Many Libraries Have Closed? Ask LISNews: If you don't want to purchase Access, you can open the data in OpenOffice Base. OpenOffice ( openoffice.org ) is free open source software and can handle many of the tasks that Microsoft products do, with none of the expense. here are the instructions on how to open them in Base: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Connecting_to_Microsoft_Access HTH!  

Once in a while somebody sends me an ODT or ODP file. Usually somebody from the ibm.com domain. For that I keep a copy of LibreOffice around. It's made by the people who used to make OpenOffice until Oracle p'ed them off. My copy is currently at 3.4.5 and I believe they are working on 3.5. Then there is OpenOffice, currently on 3.3. IBM donated their Symphony code to the project. While it is transitioning from GPL to the Apache License (no...  

Team OpenOffice.org has muddied the office suite waters further with its announcement (with a longer version [PDF]) of "White Label Office," a release candidate consisting of OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 with a number of fixes applied. "By publishing White Label Office 3.3.1, Team OpenOffice.org is taking the first step towards a maintenance release for OpenOffice.org 3.3.0. The release candidate is intended to serve as a starting point for creating...  

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Standards icon IT authorities from Germany and Switzerland have announced that they are working together, under the auspices of the Open Source Business Alliance, to improve the way that LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org display and process OOXML-formatted documents. The authorities involved include the IT groups from the cities of Munich, Jena and Freiburg im Breisgau, the Swiss canton of Waadt, the Swiss Federal Court and the Schweizer...  

City officials in Helsinki, Finland, are overwhelmingly satisfied after trying out the Free Software office suite OpenOffice.org on their laptops. 75% of 600 officials have been using OpenOffice.org exclusively since February, as part of a pilot project where the city installed the program on 22,500 workstations. In the spring of 2011, the city installed the Free Software office suite OpenOffice on 22,500 desktops. On the laptops of 600...  

Sometimes you may need to create a quick chart without access to a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc. You could say that installing the spreadsheet program would resolve the issue. But that’s only possible if you are working on a computer where you have sufficient rights to do that. And that’s [...]  

January 30, 2012, 12:40 PM — This one didn't go quite the way I thought it might: it turns out that, as I speculated back in October, IBM is indeed dropping production of its Lotus Symphony office suite ... goodies for itself. Big Blue's not trying ...  

internetnews.com: If anyone had any real doubt, IBM is the one solid reason why OpenOffice still exits. Linux distros big and small have all left for the superior open source experience that is LibreOffice, yet IBM is stuck in the past. read more  

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