[seul-edu] Re: [plug] OpenOffice.org 1.0 Launch

[Leon Brooks <leon@brooks.fdns.net>]

On Wednesday 01 May 2002 20:38, Jacqueline McNally wrote:
> OpenOffice.org
>
> MEDIA RELEASE
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> OPENOFFICE.ORG COMMUNITY ANNOUNCES OPENOFFICE.ORG 1.O: FREE OFFICE
> PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE
>
> Global Community builds full-featured office suite with revolutionary
> momentum
>
> Perth, Australia (May 1, 2002) - The OpenOffice.org community
> (http://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 6.0
> is -- like StarOffice 6.0 -- a full-featured office suite that provides a
> near drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office. OpenOffice.org 1.0 offers
> consumers and businesses software freedom, enabling a free market for
> service and support, while the Sun-branded product, StarOffice 6.0, offers
> 24x7 fee-based support and training for consumers and businesses, along
> with deployment and migration services. StarOffice 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, 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, to work
> seamlessly in the application. The OpenOffice.org 1.0 software runs stably
> and natively on multiple platforms, including Linux, PPC Linux, Solaris,
> Windows and many other flavours 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 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 localisation, 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 centralised 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 organisations, 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/.
>
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>
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>
> MEDIA RELEASE CONTACT:
> Jacqueline McNally
> Community Contact, Australia/New Zealand
> OpenOffice.org Marketing Project
> Jacqueline McNally
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