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  From: Karun <karun@karun.lorikeet.id.au>
  To  : <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 15:42:39 +1000

Fw: OpenOffice v1.0 released today

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From: "Karun" <karun@karun.lorikeet.id.au>
Newsgroups: canb.forsale
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 6:45 AM
Subject: OpenOffice v1.0 released today


> OpenOffice 1.0 has been released today.
> A cd which contains both the windows and linux versions of OpenOffice will
> be available in 2 days for a total of AUS$5.00 which includes postage and
> handling.
> If you wish to have a copy please email me at karun@karun.lorikeet.id.au
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> Thankyou
> Karun
> karun@karun.lorikeet.id.au
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> OPENOFFICE.ORG COMMUNITY ANNOUNCES OPENOFFICE.ORG 1.O: FREE OFFICE
> PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE
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> 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.
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> 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
> Hendricks, a key contributor to the OpenOffice.org community since its
> inception nearly two years ago. Hendricks has lead volunteer development
> teams for both the OpenOffice.org 1.0 spellchecker and PPC Linux port
> projects.
>
> "When OpenOffice.org was released, it was a tremendous amount of code
> with a very deep history, and thus we knew it would take a lot of time
> and effort to reach a critical mass of community participation," said
> Brian Behlendorf, CTO and co-founder, CollabNet. "The project has now
> attracted a significant amount of outside involvement, some of it in
> pretty interesting areas like marketing and quality assurance. With the
> release of 1.0, it's clear those efforts are bearing real fruit.
> Congratulations to the community -- and to Sun -- for making this
> happen."
>
> CollabNet's SourceCast application enables both centralized and
> geographically distributed software development teams to collaborate on
> OpenOffice.org projects and to track them accurately. SourceCast is the
> premier Web-based collaboration environment, which includes an
> integrated set of software development applications. CollabNet also
> provides strategic advice on open source issues and the growth of
> OpenOffice.org, and offers analysis on current trends within the
> community.
>
> "OpenOffice.org may be the most important open source project right
> now," said Miguel de Icaza, founder of the GNOME project. "Because
> people will try it and see they can get everyday work done without
> giving more money to Microsoft, they'll see -- in a low-risk way -- that
> open source software can work for them and be an even better solution."
>
> About OpenOffice.org
> OpenOffice.org is the home of the open source project and its community
> of developers, users and marketers responsible for the on-going
> development of the OpenOffice.org 1.0 product. The mission of
> OpenOffice.org is to create, as a community, 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. Additional ports, such as FreeBSD, IRIX and Mac
> OS X are in various stages of completion by developers and end-users in
> the OpenOffice.org community. OpenOffice.org 1.0 is written in C++ and
> has documented API's licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public
> License (LGPL) and Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL) open
> source licenses.
>
> About CollabNet
> CollabNet provides companies with solutions for collaborative software
> development by combining a Web-based software application with a suite
> of consulting services. Using these solutions, customers can collaborate
> on development projects within an enterprise, with customers, business
> partners, or with third party developer organizations, such as industry
> specific or open source communities. CollabNet enables corporations to
> reduce costs and increase revenues by bringing different project team
> members together, regardless of their location. CollabNet is currently
> working with customers ranging from hardware and software providers to
> companies from industries such as financial services, wireless, and
> pharmaceuticals. Brian Behlendorf, co-founder of the Apache Software
> Foundation, established CollabNet in July 1999. For more information,
> see http://www.collab.net
>
> About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
> Computer[tm]" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) to
> its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware,
> software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more
> than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.
>
> © 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
>
> Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, StarOffice, Solaris and "The
> Network Is The Computer" are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
> Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
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