“Oracle OpenOffice” is a discontinued office productivity suite. Originally acquired by Oracle through their purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2009, the project was officially discontinued in 2011 when Oracle laid off the development team and donated the code to the Apache Software Foundation.
The Fork to LibreOffice: In 2010, the majority of the original volunteer developers left Oracle to form The Document Foundation, creating a fork named LibreOffice. LibreOffice has since become the standard, actively maintained open-source office suite.
Alternatively, Euro-Office could be of interest.
It’s going to be much more modern and is to ship with most of the comfort Microsoft Office has. Euro-Office is a reviewed and improved OnlyOffice (a Russian project) fork. It was forked to avoid potential Russian influence on it. The first stable version will be available from June 9th 2026, next week. Not finished yet, though.
I tried using LibreOffice Calc when I was working on my OSCP and some of the basic functionality was so broken it was almost laughable. I think my text was pasting in as an image sometimes? I forget the exact details but it was unusable for my purposes and I decided to try again in a few years.
Yeah. No offense (because not everyone can pay attention to everything, for various reasons), but it’s been the most popular open-source office suite for at least the past decade.
I’ve been OOL for awhile, is LO the new hotness and OO is out?
From Wikipedia:
“Oracle OpenOffice” is a discontinued office productivity suite. Originally acquired by Oracle through their purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2009, the project was officially discontinued in 2011 when Oracle laid off the development team and donated the code to the Apache Software Foundation.
The Fork to LibreOffice: In 2010, the majority of the original volunteer developers left Oracle to form The Document Foundation, creating a fork named LibreOffice. LibreOffice has since become the standard, actively maintained open-source office suite.
Yes that is correct. You have been out of the loop for a very long time.
I got sucked into 10+ years of Microsoft-centric corpo gigs. Womp.
Except libreoffice is pretty crap. Especially their spreadsheet program.
They’re looking to optimize the project for collaborative working, browsers and smartphones. I reckon the UI might see some modernization, as well.
https://www.heise.de/news/Kurswechsel-LibreOffice-fuer-Browser-und-Smartphone-kommt-11309343.html
Alternatively, Euro-Office could be of interest. It’s going to be much more modern and is to ship with most of the comfort Microsoft Office has. Euro-Office is a reviewed and improved OnlyOffice (a Russian project) fork. It was forked to avoid potential Russian influence on it. The first stable version will be available from June 9th 2026, next week. Not finished yet, though.
https://www.computerbase.de/news/apps/euro-office-europaeische-alternative-zu-office365-startet-am-09-juni.97589/
Sources in German, apologies.
I tried using LibreOffice Calc when I was working on my OSCP and some of the basic functionality was so broken it was almost laughable. I think my text was pasting in as an image sometimes? I forget the exact details but it was unusable for my purposes and I decided to try again in a few years.
apache has all but let openoffice go. there’s, i think, like one guy that works on it occasionally.
open office kinda went out when oracle took them over. yeah it was handed to apache but by that time libre was the standard.
Yeah. No offense (because not everyone can pay attention to everything, for various reasons), but it’s been the most popular open-source office suite for at least the past decade.