OpenOffice.org is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite. It is an international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. It establishes the necessary facilities to make this open source technology available to the developer community.
Rated 30/50 by hogan at Aug 26, 2010
most of the functions are the same as other packages, easy touse The registration fails. I now have two accounts with them and still can't access their site properly.Drawing functions are not fully operative, adding text to boxes etc lacks functionality. Not sure why Sun can't have a simple registration procedureNot sure why the help menu doesn't explain how to do things, only lists functionality, which is intuitively obvious anyway.
Rated 50/50 by romjr at Aug 28, 2010
Per # 2. Preforms better than Office. So far nothing! Well thought out by developers with an eye to getting the job done! As I am retired, I utilize Open Office mainly for correspondance.