OpenOffice was recently taken over by Oracle when they acquired Sun. The relationship between Oracle and the OpenOffice developers soured quite early on and a fork was established in September called LibreOffice.
I understand various popular Linux distributions that used to ship with OpenOffice will have LibreOffice pre-installed in future. There's a comparison of features here.
Adam Pope
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On 16 February 2011 20:03, Marc Fresko <[log in to unmask]> wrote:Sam
OpenOffice is one of the world's more popular software products, claiming over 93 million downloads so far. So any numbers you collect from readers of this list will not be very representative.
FWIW, I think most users find it a very powerful suite - not the same as, but a strong competitor with, Microsoft Office (just to choose one other product at random). And it is mature and attractive too - far better than much shareware/open source software.
It can interwork with Microsoft Office file formats. This said, the interoperability is imperfect. Exchanging simple documents is absolutely fine - but working with documents that use advanced features (some table features, or change tracking for example) causes formatting changes when converting. So if that matters to you, test it carefully or just avoid it.
The Document and Content Management Group of Intellect (the UK trade body for the technology industry) published a white paper on this subject that I thought was helpful - entitled "Why the format of office documents matters to your business". It’s a free download from
http://www.intellectuk.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1146&Itemid=47 (aka http://tinyurl.com/4v6hhmn). I'll send you a copy off-list.
All the best
Marc Fresko
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Does anyone use "OpenOffice" (a suite of free and open source tools for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases etc)
http://www.openoffice.org/index.html
Feel free to reply on or off list. If anyone is using the software, I'll report back the numbers.
Many thanks,
Sam Steer
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