NAME- BHITESH ARORA

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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.

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.

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 OpenOffice 3.4

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.

Apache OpenOffice 4.0

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 OpenOffice 4.1

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 BasicApache 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”.

Module Notes

Writer A word processor analogous to Microsoft Word and WordPerfect.

Calc A spreadsheet analogous to Microsoft Excel and Lotus 1-2-3.

Impres

s

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.

DrawA 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.

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.

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.

Annotations of text ranges in Writer. In-place editing of text fields in Writer. Interactive image crop feature for Impress and Draw. Enhanced support for 3D charts.

Currently Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) format is not well integrated in LibreOffice/Apache OpenOffice.

However, this is necessary to successfully complete and maintain migrations towards open source office suites.

Today various public institutions have 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 stakeholders continue to send OOXML documents, especially .docx files.

These external stakeholders expect that the public institutions are able to handle such files.

I hope you like my synopsis on Apache OpenOffice!!