Version 3.4.2 of the open-source LibreOffice suite is now available and “enterprise-ready,” project backers The Document Foundation announced Monday. Some 300 people contributed more than 23,000 ...

When it comes to open source office suites, most people choose OpenOffice or LibreOffice, and they both look suspiciously similar. That isn’t surprising since they both started with exactly the same ...

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 ...

There is LibreOffice Online, which runs the full office suite in a browser through a self-hosting solution like Nextcloud or OwnCloud. It lets you edit documents from anywhere and collaborate with ...

After a headline lull, LibreOffice on Wednesday renewed its drive to replace Microsoft Office with the newest version of its open source suite of applications. The latest update comes as the ...

The Document Foundation’s tender for the development of an Android implementation of LibreOffice begs serious questions, namely: Can an influx of cash into open source code creation succeed, and how ...

OpenOffice used to be the best free alternative to Microsoft’s Office, but now it seems to be falling on hard times. Development on the open-source productivity suite is down to just 16 people, ...

In the past few years a growing number of Italian public bodies have chosen to ditch proprietary software for open source. But most of these decisions have been taken at the local level, while in ...

Earlier this week, AttachMate subsidiary Suse announced it was stopping development of LibreOffice and will facilitate the migration of staff contributors to a new business focussed on the code.

Despite the premise of open source software distribution being “free,” multibillion dollar companies like RedHat, MongoDB, GitLab and Elastic have already broken ground building profitable businesses ...

Developers love open source. In truth, many people outside of the professional software engineering cognoscenti are very fond of open source too, often optionally using a degree of open applications ...