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| <h2><a name="top"></a>OpenOffice.org History and Milestones 1999 - 2005</h2> |
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| <th colspan="2" class="alt6"> <a href="#1999">1999</a> | <a href="#2000">2000</a> | <a href="#2001">2001</a> | <a href="#2002">2002</a> | <a href="#2003">2003</a></th> |
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| <td>1999-04 </td> |
| <td>Sun Microsystems, Inc., buys StarDivision</td> |
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| <th colspan="2" class="alt6"> <a name="2000"></a>2000 </th> |
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| <td>2000-07-19</td> |
| <td>OpenOffice.org announced; StarOffice 5.2 code open-sourced under <a href="../license.html">LGPL/SISSL</a></td> |
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| <td>2000-10-13</td> |
| <td> OpenOffice.org goes live, with the source available for download </td> |
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| <td>2000-11-24</td> |
| <td>First port complete: <a href="http://porting.openoffice.org/linuxppc/ppclinks.html">PPC Linux </a></td> |
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| <td>2000-12</td> |
| <td><a href="http://xml.openoffice.org/">XML file-format specification</a></td> |
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| <th colspan="2" class="alt6">2001</th> |
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| <td>2001-02</td> |
| <td>Integration of the new, psprint-based printing system </td> |
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| <td>2001-04</td> |
| <td>Whiteboard (now <a href="http://incubator.openoffice.org/">Incubator</a>) projects grow; these are community-initiated development projects</td> |
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| <td>2001-04</td> |
| <td>Source code to <a href="http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/">Mac OS X</a> port released</td> |
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| <td>2001-04</td> |
| <td>First Lang (now <a href="http://native-lang.openoffice.org/">Native-Lang</a>) project - <a href="http://fr.openoffice.org/">Francophone</a></td> |
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| <td> 2001-04</td> |
| <td>Thesaurus announced (en_US ) </td> |
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| <td>2001-05</td> |
| <td>Spell Checking integrated (MySpell) </td> |
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| <td>2001-06</td> |
| <td>ODK released </td> |
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| <td>2001-07</td> |
| <td>First community localization - Finnish </td> |
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| <td> 2001-07</td> |
| <td>Marketing (Whiteboard) project created </td> |
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| <td>2001-09</td> |
| <td>Help system and content integrated </td> |
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| <td>2001-10</td> |
| <td>Build 638c is released (638c was a milestone release)</td> |
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| <td>2001-10</td> |
| <td>One Million Downloads! </td> |
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| <td>2001-13</td> |
| <td>First anniversary</td> |
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| <th colspan="2" class="alt6"><a name="2002"></a>2002</th> |
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| <td>2002-04</td> |
| <td>10,000 members registered; 4.5 Million downloads</td> |
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| <td height="27">2002-05</td> |
| <td>OpenOffice.org 1.0 announced</td> |
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| <td>2002-05</td> |
| <td>6 Million downloads, 2,000 messages posted per week</td> |
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| <td>2002-05-07</td> |
| <td>Mac OS X (developer) build released, adding to the list that includes all other flavors of Unix, such as FreeBSD</td> |
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| <td>2002-06-30</td> |
| <td>OpenOffice.org grows to 55,000, adding five thousand new members per week </td> |
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| <td>2002-07</td> |
| <td>Native Lang projects: <a href="http://de.openoffice.org/">Deutsch</a>, <a href="http://es.openoffice.org/index.html">Español</a>, <a href="http://it.openoffice.org/">Italiano</a>, <a href="http://nl.openoffice.org/">Nederlands</a>, <a href="http://br-pt.openoffice.org/">Português do Brasil</a></td> |
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| <td>2002-08</td> |
| <td>Community-sponsored development projects include: <a href="http://documentation.openoffice.org/">Documentation</a>, <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/">QA</a>, <a href="http://wp.openoffice.org/">WP</a>, <a href="http://groupware.openoffice.org/">Groupware</a>, <a href="http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/">Lingucomponent</a></td> |
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| <td>2002-08</td> |
| <td><a href="../awards/index.html">Best Office Productivity Award (Linux Journal)</a></td> |
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| <td>2002-08</td> |
| <td>Evolutionary Enterprise Award (Linux World Expo) (picture coming soon)</td> |
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| <td>2000-09</td> |
| <td><a href="/download/index.html#sdk">SDK</a> released, superseding the ODK</td> |
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| <td>2002-09</td> |
| <td><a href="../awards/index.html">XML Journal Finalist Award</a></td> |
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| <td>2002-10</td> |
| <td>New developer builds and ports: 643, <a href="http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/">Mac OS X11 Public Beta</a></td> |
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| <td>2002-10-13</td> |
| <td> Facts:<br> |
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| <li>More than 8.5 Million downloads |
| <li>Over 70,000 registered members |
| <li>More than 30 projects and sub-projects, two of which, <a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/">Marketing</a> and <a href="http://documentation.openoffice.org/">Documentation</a> are led by volunteer community members; the <a href="http://porting.openoffice.org/">Porting Project</a> is co-lead by a volunteer member |
| <li> Over one hundred <a href="../copyright/copyrightapproved.html">developers and contributors</a> working in all the active projects |
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| <th class="alt6" colspan="2"><a name="2003"></a>2003</th> |
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| <td>2003-02</td> |
| <td><a href="../dev_docs/source/sdk/">OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit released (Beta; now final)</a></td> |
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| <td>2003-03</td> |
| <td><a href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/">OpenOffice.org Conference</a></td> |
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| <td>2003-04</td> |
| <td>OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC1 released</td> |
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| <td>2003-07</td> |
| <td><a href="http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/">OpenOffice.org Mac OS X (X11) port finalized (GM)</a></td> |
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| <td>2003-08</td> |
| <td>Numerous new <a href="http://native-lang.openoffice.org/">Native-Lang</a> and <a href="http://incubator.openoffice.org/">Incubator</a> projects</td> |
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| <td>2003-09</td> |
| <td><a href="http://council.openoffice.org/">The OpenOffice.org Community Council Formed</a></td> |
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| <td>2003-09</td> |
| <td><a href="///about_us/1.1press_releaseb.html">OpenOffice.org 1.1 released</a></td> |
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| <td>2003-10</td> |
| <td><a href="../awards/">Awards: Numerous user and editor awards</a></td> |
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| <td>2003-10-13</td> |
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| <p>Facts: </p> |
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| <li>More than 20 million downloads</li> |
| <li>Over 107,000 registered members </li> |
| <li>More than 50 projects, many led by volunteer members</li> |
| <li>Sixty localizations achieved or in progress</li> |
| <li>Over 270 developers and contributors</li> |
| <li><a href="http://stats.openoffice.org/">More statistics</a></li> |
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| <th class="alt6" colspan="2"><a name="2004"></a>2004</th> |
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| <td>2004-02</td> |
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| <th class="alt6" colspan="2"><a name="2005"></a>2005</th> |
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| <td>2005-03</td> |
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| <a href="2.0beta_press_release.html">OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta</a> released |
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