Considering LibreOffice’s success and widespread community admiration, Apache OpenOffice’s 100 million downloads in less than two years seems even more impressive.

Any business looking for a cost-effective alternative to the Microsoft Office suite may do well to look into the open-source, free-to-download Apache OpenOffice. The suite includes a robust array ...

Lagging slightly behind Microsoft Office in features, Apache OpenOffice has a lot of functionality and flexibility, as well as tight integration among components. It's also free and open-source.

Some people in the open-source community are not at all pleased that Oracle has given OpenOffice to Apache and so they are throwing their support behind LibreOffice.

Oracle has given the OpenOffice office suite to Apache, with IBM's blessing. The Document Foundation, creators of the LibreOffice, an OpenOffice fork, can live with this move.