Apache OpenOffice is in a market segment analysts tend to describe as "Personal Productivity Applications" or PPA's. Sometimes it is called "office suites".
If you are over 40 you probably remember a time when there were unbundled apps. You bought a word processor from one company, maybe a spreadsheet from another. Microsoft introduced the "suite" concept in 1989 and since then most users deploy bundles of apps: spreadsheet, word processor and presentation editor. The major and minor players today are: -- Microsoft Office: they recently claimed 1 billion users. -- The OpenOffice "family", which includes the legacy OpenOffice.org (no longer developed), Lotus Symphony, Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice, EuroOffice, RedOffice, etc., has probably around 100 million users. -- WordPerfect Office Suite, market share unknown -- KOffice, Calligra Suite, AbiWord, Gnumeric and assorted other open source editors, market share unknown. Exact market share numbers are hard to come by since analysts stopped surveying market share in this segment once Microsoft Office hit 90%+. Another complexity is that a user might use more than one product, e.g., one at work or school and another at home. An informal survey on Facebook gave the breakdown as: https://www.facebook.com/ApacheOO/timeline/story?ut=61&wstart=1349074800&wend=1351753199&hash=4719416390818977146&pagefilter=3&ustart=1 Of course doing the survey on Facebook probably biases the survey against workplace users... -Rob
