OpenOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft's Office productivity suite got a boost on Wednesday when Ulteo, a company staffed by Linux veterans, launched a service that lets people run the OpenOffice.org suite in a browser.
IBM on Monday joined the OpenOffice.org community, providing a boost to supporters of the OpenDocument Format (ODF).
OpenOffice.org has released a patch for three security vulnerabilities in its popular open source office suite.
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have spotted what they believe is the first virus for OpenOffice, the open-source rival to Microsoft's Office productivity suite.
The open source productivity application OpenOffice.org has been downloaded almost 50 million times since the project was started, according to the company that founded the project, Sun.
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