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Compare price, features, and reviews of the software side-by-side to.Editor's note: This article originally appeared at, where you can find many other nonprofit technology resources. When SUN was acquired by Oracle, the open source community was afraid that Oracle kills SUN's open source software, which included, OpenSolaris, MySQL, etc. While some of these fears turned to reality (with Oracle dumping OpenSolaris), the database giant plans for were not so clear and the office suite future seemed in danger. Some developers forked OpenOffice and created LibreOffice. They created a foundation: The Document Foundation and changed the BSD licence (which meant you could develop and commercialize the way IBM used to do with Lotus Syphony) to our well loved GPL :) Purchase or download the latest LibreOffice base Handbook, written by community experts. LibreOffice, the best free and open source office suite. You can now use OpenOffice/LibreOffice compatible features, which include converting documents, viewing supported document types in your browser, and generating. An office suite is a collection of software that is suitable for knowledge workers. The foundation quickly raised funds and started by cleaning the code base. It provides the required tools and a consistent user interface to allow users to manage the business and personal tasks easily and efficiently.

Therefore, an office suite helps in improving productivity. LibreOffice and OpenOffice are two office suites. Both LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice offer essentially the same set of apps (Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base and Math), but LibreOffice also includes a tool called Charts. From a user perspective, no major UI changes so far. However, for developers the current focus on code cleanup is very important and will increase the number of contributors. Meanwhile, after failing to monetize it, Oracle donated OpenOffice to the Apache foundation (hey IBM ) ) OPENOFFICE OR LIBREOFFICE CODE In a nutshell, and to answer your question, LibreOffice is the brightest future could ever had :) LibreOffice 3.4.1 has been already released and packed with stable new features. While OpenOffice Writer displays a full options bar on the right side, LibreOffice has an image more similar to the one we see in. Google, RedHat, Canonical, Novell and others are showing support for LibreOffice. OpenOffice was the first big, mainstream free software competitor to Microsoft Office, and because of that, it still has mainstream name recognitionwhich is a problem. Microsoft Office is a powerful productivity suite - but if cost is a constraint, take a look at LibreOffice or Apache's OpenOffice. The GPL office suite even got more serious a while ago with a new heavyweight board.