It’s hard to say for certain what prompted Oracle to do an about-face on Friday and release OpenOffice.org to the community. After all, it was only a few short months ago that the company made clear ...

Back in January, the Amsterdam-based consultancy Software Improvement Group warned government entities not to deploy OpenOffice.org until Oracle proved its commitment to treating the software as ...

Oracle Corp. calmed the fears of tens of millions of OpenOffice.org users when it declared it would keep supporting the free open-source productivity suite following its merger with Sun Microsystems ...

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 ...

Oracle is submitting the codebase 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, ...

Earlier in the month we reported on OpenOffice.org developers breaking away from Oracle in the form of LibreOffice. Backing the new, stripped-down, lean and lite product are many open source heavy ...

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It comes as no surprise that longtime backers of OpenOffice.org are taking control over the open source project from Oracle, its new owner. On Tuesday, the OpenOffice.org community announced the ...

The new organization, known as The Document Foundation, said in a statement Tuesday that it has tentatively rebranded its own version of the open-source application suite as LibreOffice. But the ...

In recent weeks, Oracle has taken two premier open source technologies gained through the company’s 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems — the OpenOffice.org productivity suite and the Project Hudson ...

Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems last week is reviving calls for Sun’s open source OpenOffice.org suite to be spun out into an independent foundation. Oracle is one of the top corporate ...