The project has just turned seven years old now.
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OpenOffice.org community celebrates its 7th anniversary
104 million downloads of the open source productivity suite
Today, the open source project OpenOffice.org celebrates its 7th
birthday. Founded by Sun Microsystems on October 13th, 2000,
continues to experience tremendous growth. The project recently
counted 104 million downloads from its website, and downloads have
been increasing since the release of OpenOffice.org 2.3 last month.
It is widely considered the most important open source productivity
suite and one of the largest open source projects.
OpenOffice.org is available in more than 80 languages and runs
natively on every major platform; it uses the ISO standard, the
OpenDocument Format, for its files. Thousands from around the world
contribute to its ongoing success, helping with the development,
localisation, documentation, user support and marketing of the
program. "OpenOffice.org is being developed around the world, and it
is being used around the world by governments, businesses and
individuals", said Florian Effenberger, Marketing Project Co-Lead of
OpenOffice.org. "The community has achieved what few predicted seven
years ago, and we have just begun!"
In addition to its founder and main contributor Sun Microsystems,
OpenOffice.org is also recognizes the contributions of RedFlag
Software, IBM, Red Hat, and Novell, among others. OpenOffice.org
welcomes the contributions of all organizations and individuals.
OpenOffice.org 2.3 can be found at http://download.openoffice.org/2.3.0/
Links to community and professional support, templates, books, etc.,
can be obtained from http://support.openoffice.org
Press Contacts
John McCreesh (UTC +01h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead
Florian Effenberger (UTC +01h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead
Louis Suárez-Potts (UTC -04h00)
OpenOffice.org Community Manager
louis@openoffice.org
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Source an email I received from the OpenOffice.org Project
