In fact LibreOffice has been created to guarantee a vendor independent office suite which can be developed with no copyright software chunks. Consequently, it is clear that it’s too early to notice relevant technical differences between the two competitors but, for sure, something will show off in the next versions. Both the productivity platforms are able to use the OpenOffice extension library.

At the moment LibreOffice supports less languages in its Linux and MAC OS X versions and it is not compatible with Solaris based PCs. Also the graphic interface is similar between the two platforms and the buttons position is the same. Apache OpenOffice, and LibreOffice Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice, from The Document Foundation, are two free desktop-based productivity suites that work about as well as the other services. We compared both the free suites and apparently we did not notice particular differences in features and tools.

After just few months we have LibreOffice: a (more or less) new cross-platform productivity software based on OpenOffice version 3.3 beta. Since the end of September 2010, a group of German OpenOffice volunteers left definitively the project to join the The Document Foundation and develop a fork version of the famous free productivity platform now controlled by Oracle.

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