The office suite builds on Open Office adding a plethora of graphical elements and fonts.

Open Source service provider Corratech recently released Opensuite, a platform for the integration of heterogeneous enterprise applications.

IBM's Lotus Symphony will be unable to break the dominance of Microsoft's Office package according to market researchers Gartner. Open Office still has too many deficits for enterprise use, they say, and the future belongs to Web-based office and collaboration solutions.

An unknown software researcher discovered a highly critical vulnerability in the Star Office package. Manufacturer Sun has released patches to resolve the issue.

About one week after IBM joined the Open Office project, Big Blue is releasing its own free office package. The office software, dubbed Lotus Symphony is based on Open Office.

Version 2.3 of the popular Open Office suite was released today. Downloads are already available on many mirror servers.

Open Office development will benefit from IBM's own development activities.

When the Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 takes off for its maiden flight October 25, it will have a complete Linux client/server system on board.