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OPENOFFICE.ORG COMMUNITY ANNOUNCES OPENOFFICE.ORG 1.O: FREE OFFICE
PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE
Global Community Builds Full-Featured Office Suite With Revolutionary
Momentum
May 1, 2002 - The OpenOffice.org community (www.openoffice.org) today
announced the availability of OpenOffice.org 1.0, the open source,
multi-platform, multi-lingual office productivity suite available as a
free download at the OpenOffice.org community website. OpenOffice.org
1.0 is the culmination of more than 18 months of collaborative effort by
members of the OpenOffice.org community, which is comprised of Sun
employees, volunteer developers, marketers, and end users working to
create an international office suite that will run on all major
platforms.
OpenOffice.org 1.0, which shares the same code base as Sun's StarOffice
[tm] 6.0 software is � like StarOffice 6.0 software � a full-featured
office suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft
Office. OpenOffice.org 1.0 offers software freedom, enabling a free
market for service and support, while the Sun-branded product,
StarOffice 6.0 software, offers 24x7 fee-based support and training for
consumers and businesses, along with deployment and migration services.
StarOffice software also offers additional features, such as a database,
special fonts and Sun quality and assurance testing. The two office
suites complement each other, meeting the varying needs of consumers,
open source advocates and enterprise customers.
"OpenOffice.org 1.0 may be the single best hope for consumers fed-up
with Microsoft's desktop monopoly," said Eric Raymond, co-founder of the
Open Source Initiative (OSI). "With Sun moving to a full service and
support business model for StarOffice software, users around the globe
will continue to have a free office productivity software tool through
the OpenOffice.org open source community."
The OpenOffice.org 1.0 office suite features key desktop applications �
including word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and drawing
programs � in more than 25 languages. In addition, OpenOffice.org 1.0
works transparently with a variety of file formats, enabling users
familiar with other office suites, such as Microsoft Office and
StarOffice software, to work seamlessly in the application. The
OpenOffice.org 1.0 software runs stably and natively on multiple
platforms, including Linux, PPC Linux, Solaris [tm], Windows and many
other flavors of Unix.
OpenOffice.org is the largest open source project with more than 7.5
million lines of code. To date, more than 4.5 million downloads of
earlier versions of OpenOffice.org 1.0 have taken place. With the
release of the 1.0 version, the OpenOffice.org community expects that
number to grow significantly as businesses and individuals around the
world explore the free alternative to proprietary office suites.
The OpenOffice.org Community
In less than two years, the OpenOffice.org community has grown to more
than 10,000 volunteers, working together to build the leading
international office suite that will run on all major platforms and
provide access to all functionality and data through open-component
based APIs and an XML-based file format. Sun initiated this effort by
donating the StarOffice software source code and engineering to the
OpenOffice.org community. One of the major benefits of community-based
development is peer review, which has resulted in a stable, secure and
flexible software package.
Participants in the Community work on projects ranging from code
development to porting and localization, to bug reporting,
documentation, product marketing, local language sites and mirror
sites for software download.
"There are many important roles that volunteer developers can play to
shape the future functionality of OpenOffice.org (OOo) so if you are
looking for someplace to contribute, OOo can use you," said Kevin
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