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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

Oracle Corp.’s purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. announced 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 ...

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 ...