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| <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: medium">Brett |
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| Smith</P> |
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| Microsystems, Inc.</P> |
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| <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: medium">Erin |
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| <P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><B>OPENOFFICE.ORG |
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| COMMUNITY ANNOUNCES OPENOFFICE.ORG 1.O: FREE OFFICE PRODUCTIVITY |
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| SOFTWARE</B></P> |
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| <P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><B>Global Community Builds |
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| Full-Featured Office Suite With Revolutionary Momentum</B></P> |
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| April 30, 2002 - The OpenOffice.org community (<A HREF="//">www.openoffice.org</A>) |
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| today announced the availability of OpenOffice.org 1.0, the open |
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| source, multi-platform, multi-lingual office productivity suite |
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| available as a free download at the OpenOffice.org community website. |
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| OpenOffice.org 1.0 is the culmination of more than 18 months of |
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| collaborative effort by members of the OpenOffice.org community, |
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| which is comprised of Sun employees, volunteer developers, marketers, |
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| and end users working to create an international office suite that |
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| will run on all major platforms.</P> |
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| <P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%">OpenOffice.org 1.0, |
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| which shares the same code base as Sun's StarOffice [tm] 6.0 software |
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| is – like StarOffice 6.0 software – a full-featured |
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| office suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft |
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| Office. OpenOffice.org 1.0 offers software freedom, enabling a free |
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| market for service and support, while the Sun-branded product, |
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| StarOffice 6.0 software, offers 24x7 fee-based support and training |
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| for consumers and businesses, along with deployment and migration |
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| services. StarOffice software also offers additional features, such |
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| as a database, special fonts and Sun quality and assurance testing. |
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| The two office suites complement each other, meeting the varying |
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| needs of consumers, open source advocates and enterprise customers. |
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| "OpenOffice.org 1.0 may be the single best hope for consumers |
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| fed-up with Microsoft's desktop monopoly," said Eric Raymond, |
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| co-founder of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). "With Sun moving |
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| to a full service and support business model for StarOffice software, |
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| users around the globe will continue to have a free office |
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| productivity software tool through the OpenOffice.org open source |
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| community."</P> |
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| <P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%">The OpenOffice.org |
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| 1.0 office suite features key desktop applications – including |
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| word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and drawing programs – |
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| in more than 25 languages. In addition, OpenOffice.org 1.0 works |
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| transparently with a variety of file formats, enabling users familiar |
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| with other office suites, such as Microsoft Office and StarOffice |
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| software, to work seamlessly in the application. The OpenOffice.org |
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| 1.0 software runs stably and natively on multiple platforms, |
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| including Linux, PPC Linux, Solaris [tm], Windows and many other |
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| flavors of Unix.</P> |
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| <P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%"><BR><BR> |
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| </P> |
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| <P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%">OpenOffice.org is |
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| the largest open source project with more than 7.5 million lines of |
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| code. To date, more than 4.5 million downloads of earlier versions |
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| of OpenOffice.org 1.0 have taken place. With the release of the 1.0 |
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| version, the OpenOffice.org community expects that number to grow |
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| significantly as businesses and individuals around the world explore |
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| the free alternative to proprietary office suites. |
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| <P STYLE="line-height: 150%"><B>The OpenOffice.org Community</B></P> |
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| <P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%">In less than two |
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| years, the OpenOffice.org community has grown to more than 10,000 |
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| volunteers, working together to build the leading international |
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| office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access |
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| to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and |
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| an XML-based file format. Sun initiated this effort by donating the |
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| StarOffice software source code and engineering to the OpenOffice.org |
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| community. One of the major benefits of community-based development |
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| is peer review, which has resulted in a stable, secure and flexible |
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| software package.</P> |
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| <P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%"><BR><BR> |
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| </P> |
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| <P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%">Participants in the |
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| Community work on projects ranging from code development to porting |
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| and localization, to bug reporting, documentation, product |
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| marketing, local language sites and mirror sites for software |
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| download.</P> |
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| <P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%">"There are |
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| many important roles that volunteer developers can play to shape the |
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| future functionality of OpenOffice.org (OOo) so if you are looking |
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| for someplace to contribute, OOo can use you," said Kevin |
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| Hendricks, a key contributor to the OpenOffice.org community since |
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| its inception nearly two years ago. Hendricks has lead volunteer |
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| development teams for both the OpenOffice.org 1.0 spellchecker and |
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| PPC Linux port projects. |
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| <P STYLE="font-style: normal; font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%"> |
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| "When OpenOffice.org was released, it was a tremendous amount of |
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| code with a very deep history, and thus we knew it would take a lot |
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| of time and effort to reach a critical mass of community |
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| participation," said Brian Behlendorf, CTO and co-founder, |
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| CollabNet. "The project has now attracted a significant |
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| amount of outside involvement, some of it in pretty interesting areas |
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| like marketing and quality assurance. With the release of 1.0, |
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| it's clear those efforts are bearing real fruit. |
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| Congratulations to the community -- and to Sun -- for making this |
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| happen."</P> |
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| </P> |
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| <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">CollabNet's |
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| SourceCast application enables both centrali</SPAN>zed and |
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| geographically distributed software development teams to collaborate |
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| on OpenOffice.org projects and to track them accurately. SourceCast |
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| is the premier Web-based collaboration environment, which includes an |
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| integrated set of software development applications. CollabNet also</P> |
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| <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">provides strategic |
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| advice on open source issues and the growth of OpenOffice.org, and |
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| offers analysis on current trends within the community.</P> |
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| </P> |
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| "OpenOffice.org may be the most important open source project |
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| right now,” said Miguel de Icaza, founder of the GNOME |
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| project. “Because people will try it and see they can get |
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| everyday work done without giving more money to Microsoft, they'll |
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| see -- in a low-risk way -- that open source software can work for |
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| them and be an even better solution.”</P> |
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| <P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%"><BR><BR> |
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| </P> |
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| <P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%"><B>About |
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| OpenOffice.org </B><BR>OpenOffice.org is the home of the open source |
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| project and its community of developers, users and marketers |
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| responsible for the on-going development of the OpenOffice.org 1.0 |
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| product. The mission of OpenOffice.org is to create, as a community, |
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| the leading international office suite that will run on all major |
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| platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through |
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| open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. Additional |
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| ports, such as FreeBSD, IRIX and Mac OS X are in various stages of |
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| completion by developers and end-users in the OpenOffice.org |
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| community. OpenOffice.org 1.0 is written in C++ and has documented |
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| API's licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and |
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| Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL) open source licenses. |
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| </P> |
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| <P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%"><BR><BR> |
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| </P> |
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| <P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%"><B>About CollabNet |
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| </B><BR>CollabNet provides companies with solutions for collaborative |
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| software development by combining a Web-based software application |
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| with a suite of consulting services. Using these solutions, customers |
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| can collaborate on development projects within an enterprise, with |
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| customers, business partners, or with third party developer |
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| organizations, such as industry specific or open source communities. |
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| CollabNet enables corporations to reduce costs and increase revenues |
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| by bringing different project team members together, regardless of |
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| their location. CollabNet is currently working with customers ranging |
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| from hardware and software providers to companies from industries |
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| such as financial services, wireless, and pharmaceuticals. Brian |
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| Behlendorf, co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation, established |
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| CollabNet in July 1999. For more information, see |
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| http://www.collab.net |
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| </P> |
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| <P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%"><BR><BR> |
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| <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%"><B>About Sun |
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| Microsystems, Inc. </B><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium"><BR></SPAN>Since |
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| its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The |
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| Computer[tm]" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: |
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| SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength |
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| hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be |
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| found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at |
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| http://sun.com.</P> |
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| 2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.</FONT></P> |
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| Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, StarOffice, Solaris and "The |
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