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Oracle appears to have abandoned plans for Solaris 12, with no indication in its January roadmap of when this version will emerge.

The OpenOffice project has raised the possibility that it could shutter its doors, with Dennis Hamilton, the vice-president of the group that runs it now, having opened a discussion recently on how retirement of the project would look like.

Two versions of the free office suite LibreOffice have been released, one aimed at power users and the other at enterprises and more conservative users.

Open-source file syncing and sharing software company Nextcloud has announced a partnership with Collabora, a company involved in commercialising the LibreOffice suite.

A little more than two years ago, the open source consulting company Collabora took over the job of commercialising LibreOffice, the free office suite that is produced by an army of developers.

The open-source file syncing and sharing software ownCloud will now offer integration of LibreOffice, the free office suite, in the cloud.

The Apache Software Foundation has not yet fixed a five-month-old bug in the office suite Apache OpenOffice, despite the fact that it opens an user to an easily exploitable situation.

Android systems will now have another viewer for documents generated by office suites, with the release of the free LibreOffice viewer.

The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 3.5.3, the fourth release of the 3.5 branch.

Sixteen months after it was set up, the The Document Foundation has released version 3.5 of LibreOffice.

A little more than a year after The Document Foundation was set up to look after LibreOffice, the fork of the former OpenOffice.org project, it seems that Oracle did the users of the latter office suite a great favour by neglecting it.

Just a month short of one year since it forked from OpenOffice.org, the free office suite, LibreOffice, has released version 3.4.2 aimed at both private users and businesses.

When free and open source software projects fork, it is often the case that the child turns out to be much worse than the parent.

IBM will actively support the revamped OpenOffice.org project following its move to the Apache Software Foundation.