The Document Foundation is celebrating five years since the first release of the famous office suite and it’s now positioned in the market as the sole Microsoft Office contender.
When OpenOffice.org was still the king of open source office suits, a few developers wanted to do something different, and they started a new project called LibreOffice, which really took off. It's hard to think about an office suite on the Linux platform without immediately thinking about LibreOffice, and that really says a lot.
These past five years have been really good for The Document Foundation, which started with just a fork of OpenOffice.org and ended up with the most used open source office suite on the planet. It's becoming so popular that it has started to penetrate difficult markets like city administrations and government, which are usually controlled by proprietary solutions.
When OpenOffice.org was still the king of open source office suits, a few developers wanted to do something different, and they started a new project called LibreOffice, which really took off. It's hard to think about an office suite on the Linux platform without immediately thinking about LibreOffice, and that really says a lot.
These past five years have been really good for The Document Foundation, which started with just a fork of OpenOffice.org and ended up with the most used open source office suite on the planet. It's becoming so popular that it has started to penetrate difficult markets like city administrations and government, which are usually controlled by proprietary solutions.
