Recent Blog Posts
1 October:
Announcing Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1
26 August:
Back to School with Apache OpenOffice
29 July:
Developer in AOO, 1year celebration
29 July:
Interview with the developers of PrOOo-Box
23 July:
A short celebration, and then back to work
17 June:
With Apache OpenOffice you get what you don't pay for
10 June:
When will OpenOffice be released?
04 June:
The Sidebar, New and Improved
Over 70 million downloads of Apache OpenOffice
4 October 2013: Downloads of Apache OpenOfifce now exceed 70 million in less than 2 years. We invite you to take a look at our interactive charts of daily and cumulative downloads.
Volunteers, not Amateurs
8 January 2013: Apache OpenOffice is developed 100% by volunteers. Apache does not pay for developers, for translators, for QA, for marketing, for UI, for support, etc. Of course, we're happy to accept donations to the Apache Software Foundation, to keep our servers runnings and for similar overhead expenses. But our products are developed entirely by volunteers.
Some users are initially worried by this statement:
How can software for free, developed by volunteers, be
any good?
Read on for an answer...
Apache OpenOffice given two Bossie Awards!
18 September 2012:
InfoWorld has awarded Apache OpenOffice two Bossies (Best of Open Source), one for the OpenOffice application, and one
for our templates website.
Read more on our Google+ page.