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| <h2>OpenOffice.org 1.1 Press Release</h2> |
| <p>2003-10-01</p> |
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| <dt><strong>Contents</strong></dt> |
| <dd><a href="#PR">Press Release Text</a> |
| <dd> <a href="#Features">New Features</a> </dd> |
| <dd> <a href="#Availability">Availability</a> <a href="#quotes">Relevant Quotes</a> </dd> |
| <dd> <a href="#International">Internationalization</a> </dd> |
| <dd> <a href="#Accessibility">Accessibility</a> </dd> |
| <dd> <a href="#Innovations">3rd-Party Innovations</a> </dd> |
| <dd> <a href="#SDK">Software Developers Kit</a> </dd> |
| <dd> <a href="#Links">Additional Links</a> </dd> |
| <dd> <a href="../press/1.1/">Press |
| Kit</a> </dd> |
| <dd> <a href="//dev_docs/features/1.1/">New Feature |
| Highlights </a> </dd> |
| <dd> <a href="../dev_docs/features/1.1/index.html">Complete List of Features</a> </dd> |
| <dd> <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html">Press Contacts</a> </dd> |
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| <p class="Header"><a name="PR"></a>Press Release Text</p> |
| |
| <p class="Header">OPENOFFICE.ORG ANNOUNCES RELEASE 1.1 </p> |
| <p>OpenOffice.org is proud to announce the immediate availability for |
| download of the new version of the award-winning office suite, |
| OpenOffice.org 1.1, for Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP), Linux (x86 & |
| PowerPC), and Solaris[tm] Operating System (SPARC platform edition) in |
| English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese (simplified & |
| traditional), Korean and Japanese.</p> |
| <p>The suite comes complete with word-processor, spreadsheet, presentation |
| and various other components and provides a revolutionary open, |
| future-proof XML file format. The new release introduces many |
| enhancements and new features including native one-click PDF (Adobe |
| Acrobat) export, Macromedia Flash export for presentations and drawings, |
| faster load-time, enhanced MS Office file compatibility, accessibility |
| support and a smoother look and feel.</p> |
| <p> The suite, according to the terms of its open source licenses (LGPL & |
| SISSL), is free for all to use, improve, modify, and to redistribute to |
| anyone.</p> |
| <p>"The release of Version 1.1 of OpenOffice.org is a major achievement for the |
| OpenOffice.org community," said Curtis Sasaki, vice president of desktop solutions |
| at Sun Microsystems, Inc. " With the successful inaugural Openoffice.org conference |
| earlier in the year, the energy in the community drove many corporate and individual |
| contributors to work together with Sun to create the most stable and powerful |
| release of the OpenOffice.org application so far, which is the core of the |
| new StarOffice[tm] 7 Office Suite.</p> |
| <p>"New features like the native PDF export and the support for assistive |
| technologies will accelerate the fast growing, worldwide adoption of |
| OpenOffice.org, StarOffice as well as more secure, alternative desktop |
| environments. We've seen community members work for days on end to |
| create translated versions. This kind of enthusiasm helped to make |
| OpenOffice.org one of the leading open source projects today," adds |
| Sasaki. </p> |
| <p>Versions for Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris (x86) will be available later |
| this year. Other platforms continue in development.</p> |
| <p>The suite and it's source code can be downloaded from |
| our <a href="../dev_docs/source/1.1.0/">Download Page</a>.</p> |
| <hr> |
| |
| <p class="Header">About OpenOffice.org</p> |
| 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 |
| 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. The OpenOffice.org office suite runs on FreeBSD, Windows (98/ME/2000/XP), |
| Linux (x86 & PowerPC), Mac OS X and Solaris; while ports for other operating |
| systems and hardware platforms, including IRIX, HP-UX, Tru64, Linux (Alpha), |
| Linux (ARM), Linux (Itanium2) and others, are in various stages of development. |
| OpenOffice.org 1.1 -- soon available across multiple platforms in over 60 native |
| languages -- 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. OpenOffice.org has tracked over 20 million downloads |
| in the life of the project. The founder and sponsor of the OpenOffice.org project |
| is Sun Microsystems, Inc. Sun markets an office suite based on the OpenOffice.org |
| code called StarOffice. |
| CollabNet (www.collab.net) hosts and manages the project. |
| <p></p> |
| |
| <hr> |
| <p class="Header"><a name="Features"></a>New Features</p> |
| <p>Some of the new features and improvements included in OpenOffice.org 1.1 are:</p> |
| <p class="Header">Native Export to Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format)</p> |
| <p>This feature allows any document, spreadsheet or presentation to be exported |
| directly to Adobe PDF format without the need for additional expensive software.</p> |
| <p class="Header">Native Export to Macromedia Flash</p> |
| <p> This feature allows presentations to be exported directly to the Macromedia |
| Flash format, allowing for easy distribution or embedding into web pages, without |
| the need for additional expensive software. |
| </p> |
| <p class="Header">Faster Load Time</p> |
| <p> OpenOffice.org developers have streamlined the code to improve upon the time |
| taken to initially load the suite. Also, a progress bar has been added to the |
| splash screen. |
| </p> |
| <p class="Header">Improved International Support</p> |
| <p> Support for languages such as Hindi, Arabic, Thai, Hebrew and Chinese has |
| been enhanced with improved vertical and bi-directional writing technologies. |
| </p> |
| <p class="Header">New Mobile Device Formats</p> |
| <p> Support for AportisDoc (Palm), Pocket Word and Pocket Excel has been added |
| for easier transfer of documents to PDA's and Handheld Devices. |
| </p> |
| <p class="Header">Improved Compatibility with MS Office Formats</p> |
| <p> Filters have been added to support MS Office 2003 XML Wrapped documents and |
| improvements have been made to the filters for MS Office 95/97/2000/XP documents. |
| </p> |
| <p class="Header">New Accessibility Features</p> |
| <p> New support for full keyboard navigation and control, tracking system color |
| scheme and theme settings, accessibility in the help system and documents, |
| Assistive Technologies via Java accessibility APIs. </p> |
| <p> For a more complete list of features please visit |
| the <a href="../dev_docs/features/1.1/">Features page</a>. </p> |
| <hr> |
| |
| <p class="Header"><a name="Availability"></a>Availability </p> |
| |
| <p> OpenOffice.org 1.1 is immediately available for Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP), |
| Linux (x86 and PowerPC) and Solaris (SPARC) in English (US and UK), German, |
| French (FR), Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), |
| Korean, and Japanese. There are over 60 language localization projects |
| currently ongoing in the worldwide OpenOffice.org development project.</p> |
| <p> You can download the suite at your convenience from the <a |
| href="//">OpenOffice.org Web site</a> or order a CD-ROM |
| from a <a href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/">community distributor</a> near |
| you.</p> |
| <p> |
| <hr> |
| <p class="Header"><a name="quotes"></a>Relevant Quotes</p> |
| <p> |
| <p class="Header">Curtis Sasaki, Sun Microsystems, Inc. --</p> |
| <p class="indent">"The release of Version 1.1 of OpenOffice.org is a major achievement for |
| the OpenOffice.org community. With the successful inaugural Openoffice.org |
| conference earlier in the year, the energy in the community drove many corporate |
| and individual contributors to work together with Sun to create the most stable |
| and powerful release of the OpenOffice.org application so far, which is the |
| core of the new StarOffice 7 Office Suite."</p> |
| <p class="indent"> "New features like the native PDF export and the support for assistive technologies |
| will accelerate the fast growing, worldwide adoption of OpenOffice.org, StarOffice |
| as well as more secure, alternative desktop environments. We've seen |
| community members work for days on end to create translated versions. This |
| kind of enthusiasm helped to make OpenOffice.org one of the leading open source |
| projects today."</p> |
| <p class="Header">Michael Meeks, Novell Ximian Services --</p> |
| |
| <p class="indent"> "OpenOffice.org is a crucial component of the Free software desktop, with innumerable |
| improvements in 1.1. The GNOME integration in 1.1 and beyond makes OpenOffice.org even |
| more usable and powerful. Personally it's been a pleasure working with |
| the OpenOffice.org team - get involved if you can."</p> |
| <p class="Header">Horst Bräuner, City of Schwäbisch-Hall, Germany --</p> |
| <p class="indent">"OpenOffice.org is, in addition to Mozilla, THE open source |
| application that will be deployed on all workstations. It will be used |
| on both the remaining Windows PC's as well as the Linux desktop systems. Due |
| to the fact that OpenOffice.org is open source, we also recommend OpenOffice.org |
| for use at |
| home to all our employees. Everybody receives an OpenOffice.org CD as |
| part of our migration training or upfront on demand. In case of |
| installation problems, we support users with our own competency center. We |
| decided to go with OpenOffice.org due to it's future-proof XML file format." </p> |
| <p class="Header">Dr. Martin Sommer, Product Manager Consumer Products, SuSE |
| Linux AG, Nürnberg --</p> |
| <p class="indent"> "OpenOffice.org is one of the most important software packages on SuSE Linux, |
| because it lowers the transition hurdles for Linux novices coming from Windows (where MS Office is one of the most important applications), |
| and it provides an important daily work tool for professional users and developers. File |
| exchange between friends, companies and authorities is very easy between OpenOffice.org |
| and MS Office, and OpenOffice.org's compatibility with MS Office file formats |
| is the best on Linux." </p> |
| <p class="Header">L. E. Vásquez, National University of Colombia --</p> |
| <p class="indent"> "For a country like Colombia – which some call "third world" -- |
| to get state-of-the-art technology means big money and enormous dependence |
| upon a single entity. So when you can get such technology for "free" -- |
| and your people can collaborate directly with its developers -- it is really |
| important to you.</p> |
| <p class="indent"> I am referring to OpenOffice.org and StarOffice, the open source project |
| and products founded by Sun Microsystems.</p> |
| <p class="indent">Since August 1999, when Sun first made StarOffice 5.1 |
| available as a free download, a lot of Colombians have used both the StarOffice |
| and OpenOffice.org |
| suites with much success. Because the products are a crucial component |
| of the Free software desktop, we see more and more private and government agencies |
| deploying or evaluating OpenOffice.org/SO for partial or full replacement of |
| MS Office.</p> |
| <p class="indent"> In Colombia, OpenOffice.org/SO have reached significant |
| penetration (between 30 and 50 percent) in the small office home office ("SOHO") |
| and education (both public and private), including K-12 and Universities.</p> |
| <p class="indent"> OpenOffice.org and StarOffice -- with their future-proof |
| XML file format and excellent price and performance – give my people |
| confidence when we look toward the future."</p> |
| <p class="Header">In the Community</p> |
| <p class="indent">"The new features are nice; I've been using Export to PDF much |
| more than I expected," said Ed Buck, consultant and project contributor, "but |
| to me the best part is what's under the hood. OpenOffice.org 1.1's native |
| XML file format supercedes any single new or old feature. This open, |
| standard and universally accepted file format today allows users to escape |
| file format lock-in and companies to bring their IT software AND hardware budgets |
| back under their own control. In the enterprise context, open XML undeniably |
| adds shareholder value; for individuals, it makes for happy work."</p> |
| <p class="indent"> Remarks Anthony Long, contributor to the OpenOffice.org |
| Marketing Project: "Well, |
| we'd just like to emphasize that OpenOffice.org 1.1 runs on Windows. Although |
| about 63% of our users run the OpenOffice.org suite on Windows, many other |
| people are still unaware that some open source software does run on Windows. |
| So, if your computer's operating system is any version of Windows, then OpenOffice.org |
| 1.1 will run smoothly and offer a very stable and productive experience. Plus, |
| you never have to worry about your software vendor discontinuing your file |
| format." </p> |
| |
| <p class="Header">In the Press</p> |
| <p> Christopher Null,<em> PC World</em> |
| <p class="indent"> "The Best Software You're Not Using" |
| <p class="indent"> Once you get familiar with OpenOffice.org's slightly geeky |
| interface, this free office suite can be a reasonable alternative to the old |
| standbys of Word, |
| Excel, and PowerPoint. The similarities are often uncanny, from spreadsheet |
| currency formatting to autocorrecting typos; plus, you can build PowerPoint-like |
| presentations just as you would with the real deal. You shouldn't run into |
| compatibility problems with Microsoft Office applications: Opening Word and |
| even complicated Excel files works fine--tables and formulas come through intact. |
| (free) |
| <p class="indent"> <a |
| href="http://four.pcworld.shopping.yahoo.com/yahoo/article/0,aid,112028,00.asp">http://four.pcworld.shopping.yahoo.com/yahoo/article/0,aid,112028,00.asp</a></p> |
| <p> |
| David Pogue, <em>The New York Times</em> |
| <p class="indent"> "The world waited for a contender that was so compelling...Now there |
| is one. It's called OpenOffice, and it has a killer feature: it's free... Every |
| now and then, you get what you don't pay for." |
| <p class="indent"> <a |
| href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D15F63C5B0C738EDDAF0894DA404482">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10D15F63C5B0C738EDDAF0894DA404482</a></p> |
| <p> |
| Rob Pegoraro, <em>The Washington Post</em></p> |
| <p class="indent"> OpenOffice.org 1.0 "either matches or beats Microsoft Office... It's |
| hardly perfect, but somebody in Redmond ought to be worried about this program... The |
| OpenOffice suite opened every Word, Excel and PowerPoint file I tried. Most |
| looked identical or nearly so. One even looked better than in Word -- OpenOffice |
| showed an embedded author's note without my having to turn on the revision-tracking |
| option." |
| <p class="indent"> <a |
| href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A4246-2002May11&notFound=true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A4246-2002May11&notFound=true</a></p> |
| <p class="Header">In Schools</p> |
| <p class="indent"> Chuck Hunnefield, Technology Coordinator, Linden Hall School for Girls (Lititz, |
| PA, USA), explains, "We are a boarding school. Almost every student |
| this year either brought a computer or leased one from us. We are also |
| an international school with students from all over the world. The computers |
| they bring have all sorts of different software installed, different (and often |
| incompatible) versions of [the leading office suite and], WordPerfect, Lotus, |
| DOS-based apps, etc. Some don't even have any office software installed |
| at all!" OpenOffice.org "allowed us to finally be able to |
| standardize what we use on computer lab computers, student computers, teacher |
| computers, and even the teacher's home computers if they wish. All this |
| at minimal cost to the school or its students." </p> |
| <p> |
| <hr> |
| <p class="Header"><a name="International"></a>Internationalization<p> |
| |
| <p class="Header">Native Languages (Native-Lang)</p> |
| |
| |
| <p class="indent">There are 14 active Native-Lang Web sites representing as many communities where |
| development and marketing of the OpenOffice.org software take place in the local |
| language: |
| </p> |
| <p class="indent"> Basque**, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US), French (FR), Finnish, |
| German, Hindi, Italian, Laotian**, Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Slovak**, |
| Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese**</p> |
| <p class="indent"> ** in formation</p> |
| <p class="Header">Software Language Localization ("l10n") Projects |
| <p class="indent">OpenOffice.org software is the primary office suite for a growing number |
| of people around the world who have never before accessed the desktop in their |
| 1st language:</p> |
| <p class="indent"> Arabic*, Basque, Bulgarian*, Bosnian*, Catalan*, Chinese |
| (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Corsican*, Croatian*, Croatian*, Czech*, |
| Danish*, Dutch*, English |
| (US), English (British), Esperanto*, Finnish*, French (FR), Galician*, German, |
| German (Austrian), German (Swiss), Greek*, Hungarian*, Icelandic*, Hindi, Tamil, |
| Devanagari (Konkani, Marathi, Sanskrit), Gujarati, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Oriya, |
| Bengali, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bahasa Malaysia*, Malaysian Chinese*, |
| Malaysian Tamil*, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian*, Lithuanian*, Norwegian |
| (Nyorsk, Bokmal)*, Polish*, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Iberian)*, |
| Romanian*, Russian, Kinyarwanda (Rwanda)*, Serbian*, Slovak, Slovenian*, Zulu*, |
| Sesotho*, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian*, Vietnamese*, Welsh*, |
| Yiddish*</p> |
| <p class="indent"> * in development</p> |
| <p> |
| <hr> |
| <p class="Header"><a name="Accessibility"></a>Accessibility |
| </p> |
| <p class="indent"> OpenOffice.org release 1.1 includes additional Assistive Technology |
| components. Of |
| particular interest is the availability and integration (via separate download) |
| of Sun's Java access bridge available from <a |
| href="http://www.sun.com/access/">http://www.sun.com/access/</a>. |
| <p class="indent"> This new Java component promises an exciting future for both StarOffice and |
| OpenOffice.org as it allows for integration of such popular programs as Freedom |
| Scientific's JAWS and Ai Squared's ZoomText. While not 100% complete at this |
| time Sun's Accessibility Program continues to provide and promote equality |
| of access in accordance with US Federal Regulation 508. Parties interested |
| in participating in this project component are invited to review <a href="http://www.sun.com/access">http://www.sun.com/access</a> and <a href="http://ui.openoffice.org/accessibility/index.html">http://ui.openoffice.org/accessibility/index.html</a>.</p> |
| <p> |
| <hr> |
| <p class="Header"><a name="Innovations"></a>3rd- Party Innovations |
| </p> |
| |
| |
| <p class="Header">WordPerfect & LaTeX Conversion Tools</p> |
| <p class="indent">A WordPerfect filter application, developed by William Lachance and Marc |
| Maurer, is now available to assist users migrating from WordPerfect to OpenOffice.org |
| or Sun's StarOffice.</p> |
| <p class="indent"> An OpenOffice.org Writer-to-Latex conversion tool, developed by Henrik Just, |
| is now available to allow users to produce pre-production output.</p> |
| <p class="indent"> Combined, these two tools (available as applications separate from OpenOffice.org1.1) |
| serve to position the OpenOffice.org and Sun StarOffice wordprocessors as a |
| premier tool for cross platform document processing.</p> |
| <span class="indent"><br> |
| </span><hr |
| > |
| <p class="Header"><a name="SDK"></a>Software Development Kit (SDK) |
| </p> |
| <p class="indent"> The OpenOffice.org SDK is an add-on for the OpenOffice.org office suite. It |
| provides the necessary tools and documentation for programming the OpenOffice.org |
| API's and creating own extensions (UNO components) for OpenOffice.org.</p> |
| <p class="indent"> Using the OpenOffice.org SDK developers can generate, modify, export and |
| print different document types. New add-ons for OpenOffice.org can be |
| built and easily deployed using the C++ or Java technologies. The SDK |
| also provides a Java component that allows to embed OpenOffice.org into Java |
| GUI applications.</p> |
| <p class="indent"> Developers who are new to OpenOffice.org will also find the OpenOffice.org |
| developer page useful. It can be found at: |
| <p class="indent"> <a href="/project/development/index.html">http://development.openoffice.org</a> |
| <p> |
| <hr> |
| <p class="Header"><a name="Links"></a>Additional Links</p> |
| <p><strong> OpenOffice.org 1.1 download</strong></p> |
| <p class='indent'> <a href="//dev_docs/source/1.1.0/index.html">//dev_docs/source/1.1.0/index.html</a> </p> |
| <p><strong> OpenOffice.org CD-ROM (Community Distributor links) </strong></p> |
| <p class='indent'> <a href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/#cdrom">http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/#cdrom</a> </p> |
| <p><strong> OpenOffice.org1.1's open, standard XML file format </strong></p> |
| <p class='indent'> <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/">http://www.w3.org/XML/</a> </p> |
| <p class='indent'> <a |
| href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office">http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office</a> </p> |
| <p><strong> OpenOffice.org Native-Lang Projects </strong></p> |
| <p class='indent'> <a href="http://native-lang.openoffice.org/">http://native-lang.openoffice.org/</a> </p> |
| <p><strong> OpenOffice.org Localization (l10n) Project </strong></p> |
| <p class='indent'> <a href="http://l10n.openoffice.org/localization_responsibilities.html">http://l10n.openoffice.org/localization_responsibilities.html</a> </p> |
| <p><strong> OpenOffice.org Accessibility </strong></p> |
| <p class='indent'> <a href="http://ui.openoffice.org/accessibility/index.html">http://ui.openoffice.org/accessibility/index.html</a> </p> |
| <p><strong> Sun Accessibility </strong></p> |
| <p class='indent'> <a href="http://www.sun.com/access/">http://www.sun.com/access/</a> </p> |
| <p><strong> JAWS: </strong></p> |
| <p class='indent'> <a href="http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws.asp">http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws.asp</a> </p> |
| <p><strong> ZoomText: </strong></p> |
| <p class='indent'> <a |
| href="http://www.aisquared.com/Products/ZoomText8_mag_reader/FreeTrial/Z8FreeTrial.htm">http://www.aisquared.com/Products/ZoomText8_mag_reader/FreeTrial/Z8FreeTrial.htm</a> </p> |
| <p><strong> WordPerfect Conversion Tool </strong></p> |
| <p class='indent'> <a href="http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/">http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/</a> </p> |
| <p><strong> LaTeX Conversion Tool </strong></p> |
| <p class='indent'> <a href="http://www.hj-gym.dk/%7Ehj/writer2latex/">http://www.hj-gym.dk/~hj/writer2latex/ </a> </p> |
| <p><strong> Other 3rd party innovations </strong></p> |
| <p class='indent'> <a href="/project/development/index.html">http://development.openoffice.org</a> </p> |
| <p><strong> OpenOffice.org SDK (Software Developers Kit) </strong></p> |
| <p class='indent'> <a href="//dev_docs/source/sdk/">//dev_docs/source/sdk/</a> </p> |
| <p><strong> More About OpenOffice.org </strong></p> |
| <p class='indent'> <a href="//about.html">//about.html</a> </p> |
| <p><strong> OpenOffice.org Marketing Contacts List (country leaders) </strong></p> |
| <p class='indent'> <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html">http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html</a> </p> |
| <p><strong> Review of OpenOffice.org 1.1 release candidate 2</strong></p> |
| <p class='indent'>"Making Microsoft's |
| Office Team Even More Nervous"</p> |
| <p class='indent'> <a href="http://www.winplanet.com/winplanet/reviews/4940/1/">http://www.winplanet.com/winplanet/reviews/4940/1/</a> </p> |
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