With this move, Oracle not only got rid of the top OpenOffice developers, it helped build a wall between LibreOffice's code and OpenOffice. It started when Oracle, then OpenOffice's sponsor, kicked out the LibreOffice programmers in 2010. While, officially, OpenOffice isn't dead yet, for all practical purposes it's been a dead program running for years now. For example, LibreOffice saw 14 version updates last year, compared to one version update for OpenOffice in October 2015. The compatibility issues had diminished significantly, and personally, the FREE factor had greatly influence my decision of abandoning Ms Office which clearly still one of the best Office suites around. That's no news to anyone who has followed the OpenOffice/LibreOffice saga. 'I have used for quite a long time (since StarOffice 5.2) and it had improved a lot over the years. 2021 old versions Licence Free OS Support Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. Huge savings prompt Italian city to dump OpenOffice for Microsoft after four yearsĪccording to a study commissioned by the government body - and Microsoft - the costs of using an open source suite far outweigh those of using Office 365.įurther, Hamilton said, 'It is also my considered opinion that there is no ready supply of developers who have the capacity, capability, and will to supplement the roughly half-dozen volunteers holding the project together.' Download Now Apache OpenOffice is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.

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