Apache OpenOffice is an open-source office suite that includes a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation application, drawing application, formula editor, and database application. It can open a wide variety of file formats, including those from Microsoft Office. Apache OpenOffice is developed for Linux, Mac OS, and Windows and is distributed under the Apache License. Recent versions have added features like annotations on text ranges and improved support for 3D charts.

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2. Apache OpenOffice (AOO) is an open-source office productivity software suite. It descends
fromOpenOffice.org and IBM Lotus Symphony, and is a close cousin of LibreOffice.
Apache OpenOffice contains a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc),
a presentation application (Impress), a drawing application (Draw), a formula editor (Math), and
a database management application (Base).
Apache OpenOffice's default file format is the Open Document Format (ODF), an ISO/IEC standard,
which originated with OpenOffice.org. It can also read a wide variety of other file formats, with
particular attention to those from Microsoft Office.
Apache OpenOffice is developed for Linux, OS X and Windows, with ports to other operating
systems. It is distributed under the Apache License. The first release was version 3.4.0, on 8 May
2012. By December 2011, the project was being called Apache OpenOffice.org (Incubating); in 2012,
the project chose the name Apache OpenOffice, a name used in the 3.4 press release.

3. Apache was made in the year of 1996 and Open Office.org was made in the year of 1999 in August.
After acquiring Sun Microsystems in January 2010, Oracle Corporation continued developing
OpenOffice.org and Star Office, which it renamed Oracle Open Office. In September 2010, the
majority of outside OpenOffice.org developers left the project due to concerns over Sun's, and then
Oracle's, management of the project, to form The Document Foundation (TDF). TDF released
the fork LibreOffice in January 2011, which most Linux distributions soon moved to, including Oracle
Linux in 2012.
In April 2011 Oracle stopped development of OpenOffice.org and laid off the remaining development
team. Its reasons for doing so were not disclosed; some speculate that it was due to the loss of
mindshare with much of the community moving to LibreOffice while others suggest it was a
commercial decision. In June 2011 Oracle contributed the trademarks to the Apache Software
Foundation. It also contributed Oracle-owned code to Apache for re-licensing under the Apache
License, at the suggestion of IBM (to whom Oracle had contractual obligations concerning the
code), as IBM did not want the code put under a copy left license. The developer pool for the
Apache project was seeded by IBM employees, who as of 2014 continued to do the majority of the
development.
The project was accepted to the Apache Incubator on 13 June 2011, the Oracle code drop was
imported on 29 August 2011, Apache OpenOffice 3.4 was released 8 May 2012 and Apache
OpenOffice graduated as a top-level Apache project on 18 October 2012.
IBM donated the Lotus Symphony codebase to the Apache Software Foundation in 2012, and
Symphony was deprecated in favour of Apache OpenOffice. Many features, including the sidebar
and bug fixes, were merged. The IAccessible2 screen reader support from Symphony was merged
for inclusion in the AOO 4.1 release, although its first appearance in an open source software
release was as part of LibreOffice 4.2 in January 2014.

4. Release history
Version Release date Description
3.4 2012-05-08 First Apache release.
3.4.1 2012-08-23 Bug fixes more languages.
4.0.0 2013-07-23 New sidebar, Symphony merges additional features.
4.0.1 2013-10-01 Bug fixes 9 new languages.
4.1 2014-04-29 ___
Apache OpenOffice3.4
Oracle released a beta version of OpenOffice.org 3.4 on 12 April 2011, including new SVG import,
improved ODF 1.2 support, and spreadsheet functionality.
A few days after the beta release, Oracle cancelled development of the proprietary Oracle Open
Office derivative and, a few months later, announced that stewardship of OpenOffice.org would be
transferred to the Apache Software Foundation.
With the donation to Apache, development slowed while the foundation moved the codebase and
infrastructure to its servers. Apache OpenOffice 3.4 was released on 8 May 2012. Apache
OpenOffice 3.4 differed from the thirteen-month-older OpenOffice.org 3.4 beta mainly in license-
related details: as much code and fonts under licenses unacceptable to Apache was removed as
was possible. Language support was considerably reduced, to 15 languages from 121 in the last
Oracle OpenOffice.org version. Java is not bundled with the software. 3.4.1, released 23 August
2012, added five more languages, with a further eight added 30 January 2013.

5. Apache OpenOffice4.0
Apache OpenOffice 4.0 was released July 23, 2013. Features include merging the Symphony code
drop, reimplementing the sidebar-style interface from Symphony, improved install, MS Office
interoperability enhancements, and performance improvements. 4.0.1 Added nine new languages.
Apache OpenOffice4.1
This version was released 29 April 2014. Various features lined up for 4.1 include comments on text
ranges, IAccessible2, in-place editing of Input Fields, interactive cropping, importing pictures from
files and other improvements.
Fonts
Apache OpenOffice includes Open Symbol, DejaVu, the Gentium fonts, and the Apache-licensed
ChromeOS fonts Arimo (sans serif), Tinos (serif) and Cousine (monospace).
OpenOffice Basic
Apache OpenOffice includes OpenOffice Basic, a programming language similar to Microsoft Visual
Basic for Applications (VBA). Apache OpenOffice has some Microsoft VBA macro support.
OpenOffice Basic is available in Writer, Calc and Base.
File formats
Apache OpenOffice inherits its handling of file formats from OpenOffice.org (excluding some
supported only by copy left libraries, such as WordPerfect support). There is no definitive list of what
formats the program supports other than the program's behavior. Notable claimed improvements in
file format handling in 4.0 include improved interoperability with Office Open XML (import only).
Use of Java
Apache OpenOffice does not bundle a Java virtual machine with the installer, as OpenOffice.org
did, although the suite still requires Java for "full functionality”.

6. Module Notes
Writer A word processor analogous to Microsoft Word and WordPerfect.
Calc A spreadsheet analogous to Microsoft Excel and Lotus 1-2-3.
Impress
A presentation program analogous to Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple
Keynote. Can export presentations to Adobe Flash (SWF) files, allowing them
to be played on any computer with a Flash player installed.
Draw
A vector graphics editor comparable in features to the drawing functions
in Microsoft Office.
Math
A tool for creating and editing mathematical formulae, analogous to Microsoft
Equation Editor. Formulae can be embedded inside other Apache OpenOffice
documents, such as those created by Writer. It supports multiple fonts.
Base
A database management program analogous to Microsoft Access. Base can
function as a front-end to a number of different database systems, including
Access databases (JET), ODBC data sources and MySQL/PostgreSQL.
Native to the suite is a version of HSQL.

8. The project strongly recommends all downloads be made from its own download page, which
supplies binaries from the project's Source Forge page .Source Forge reported 30 million downloads
for the Apache OpenOffice 3.4 series by January 2013, making it one of Source Forge’s top
downloads; the project claimed 50 million downloads of Apache OpenOffice 3.4.x as of 15 May
2013, slightly over one year after the release of 3.4.0 (8 May 2012), and 85,083,221 downloads of all
versions by 1 January 2014.
As of May 2012 (the first million downloads), 87% of downloads via Source Forge were for Windows,
11% for Macintosh and 2% for Linux; statistics in the first 50 million downloads remained consistent,
at 88% Windows, 10% Macintosh, 2% Linux. As of April 2014, Apache OpenOffice has been
downloaded 100 million times in a period of two years.
In distributions, Apache OpenOffice is available in Gentoo Linux and the FreeBSD ports tree.
Derivatives include AndrOpen Office for Android.
LibreOffice also reuses some Apache OpenOffice code, acknowledging 4.5% of commits in
LibreOffice 4.1 as coming from Apache contributors. It is also rebasing its LGPL version 3 codebase
on the Apache OpenOffice 3.4 source code release, to allow wider (but still copy left) licensing
under MPL v2+ and LGPL v3+.
NeoOffice includes stability fixes from Apache OpenOffice.

9.  Mac OS X version is now 64-bit and requires OS X version
10.7 or above.
 Integrated iAccessible support, offering better integration
with screen readers.
 Annotationsof text ranges in Writer.
 In-place editing of text fields in Writer.
 Interactive image crop feature for Impress and Draw.
 Enhancedsupport for 3D charts.

10.  Currently Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) format is
not well integrated in LibreOffice/Apache OpenOffice.
 However, this is necessary to successfully complete and
maintainmigrationstowards open source office suites.
 Today variouspublic institutionshave switched to
LibreOffice/Apache OpenOffice on the desktop or use
head- less open source office suites for business
applications.
 Nevertheless citizens businesses and other public
stakeholderscontinue to send OOXML documents,
especially.docx files.
 These external stakeholders expect that the public
institutionsare able to handlesuch files.

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