Over the past twenty years, OpenOffice.org has developed into the leading open-source office productivity suite – easily the equal of commercial offerings. Unlike say Microsoft Office, it was designed from day one as a single unit (MS-Office was bolted together from completely separate products – Excel, Word, etc). This makes it consistent as you move [...]

As a very amateur hacker, I know the pleasure that comes from finally nailing an obscure bug. An OpenOffice.org developer, Eike Rathke, has a blog posting about nailing a bug in Calc. A user had reported a case where Calc was taking 24 seconds to do something which a rival product could do in just [...]

Spanish is spoken as a first language by about 330 million people and as a second language by perhaps another 50 million, which makes it the number two mother tongue in the world.
So, the news that the OpenOffice.org Users’ Community Forum is now open for business in Spanish is good news for a lot of [...]

According to this press release:
Norway pledged funds Monday to stimulate public sector use of the free open source software OpenOffice to reduce its dependency on Microsoft Corp. and other major software producers.
Minister of Government Administration and Reform Heidi Grande Roeys said she was granting 2 million kroner ($285,000) to the national center for free software [...]

I have warned before about the danger from para-sites that are cashing in on the popularity of the free open-source office software package OpenOffice.org. This example from today’s mail demonstrates it’s not just a theoretical problem:
I hope that you don’t mind that I send you this message. However, I want to point you to [...]

Or, to be precise, at midnight UTC last night we had recorded 10,302,489 downloads of OpenOffice.org software since we announced the availability of 3.0 on October 13th. The press release with all the details is here.
If you want to follow the ongoing progress, the download counter – updated daily – is displayed on the Marketing [...]

Following the announcement of the availability of OpenOffice.org 3.0 on October 13th, we’ve been carefully recording the number of downloads logged via the Bouncer (the mechanism behind the OpenOffice.org download site – for more details, see the FAQ). We’d all been hoping that the headline counter on the Marketing Planet would pass the 10 million [...]