Can Apache OpenOffice Still Compete with LibreOffice?

09.05.2012
It used to be that OpenOffice.org was the leading open source alternative to proprietary productivity suites like , and it was included in pretty much all the major Linux distributions.

Then Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, and OpenOffice fell onto .

That, in turn, is what spawned the ; and I think it's fair to say that most users haven't looked back since.

Yes, Oracle ended up to the community via the (ASF); and yes, IBM has behind the effort.

Meanwhile, we've seen LibreOffice with the support of Google and most major distributions even as and have bogged down the OpenOffice side.