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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: medium">Brett

Smith</P>

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Microsystems, Inc.</P>

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276-6143</P>

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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: medium">Erin

Geisler</P>

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Cunningham for Sun</P>

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652-2713</P>

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<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><B>OPENOFFICE.ORG

COMMUNITY ANNOUNCES OPENOFFICE.ORG 1.O: FREE OFFICE PRODUCTIVITY

SOFTWARE</B></P>

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<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><B>Global Community Builds

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>)

 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.</P>

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<P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%">OpenOffice.org 1.0,

which shares the same code base as Sun's StarOffice [tm] 6.0 software

is &ndash; like StarOffice 6.0 software &ndash; a full-featured

office suite that provides a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft

Office.  OpenOffice.org 1.0 offers software freedom, enabling a free

market for service and support, while the Sun-branded product,

StarOffice 6.0 software, offers 24x7 fee-based support and training

for consumers and businesses, along with deployment and migration

services.  StarOffice software 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. 

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&quot;OpenOffice.org 1.0 may be the single best hope for consumers

fed-up with Microsoft's desktop monopoly,&quot; said Eric Raymond,

co-founder of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). &quot;With Sun moving

to a full service and support business model for StarOffice software,

users around the globe will continue to have a free office

productivity software tool through the OpenOffice.org open source

community.&quot;</P>

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<P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%">The OpenOffice.org

1.0 office suite features key desktop applications &ndash; including

word processor, spreadsheet, presentation  and drawing programs &ndash;

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

software, to work seamlessly in the application. The OpenOffice.org

1.0 software runs stably and natively on multiple platforms,

including Linux, PPC Linux, Solaris [tm], Windows and many other

flavors of Unix.</P>

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<P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%">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.  

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<P STYLE="line-height: 150%"><B>The OpenOffice.org Community</B></P>

<P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%">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 software 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.</P>

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<P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%">Participants in the

Community work on projects ranging from code development to porting

and localization, to bug reporting, documentation,  product

marketing,  local language sites and mirror sites for software

download.</P>

<P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%">&quot;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,&quot; 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.  

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&quot;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,&quot; said Brian Behlendorf, CTO and co-founder,

CollabNet.&nbsp; &quot;The project has now attracted a significant

amount of outside involvement, some of it in pretty interesting areas

like marketing and quality assurance.&nbsp; With the release of 1.0,

it's clear those efforts are bearing real fruit.&nbsp;

Congratulations to the community -- and to Sun -- for making this

happen.&quot;</P>

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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">CollabNet's

SourceCast application enables both centrali</SPAN>zed 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</P>

<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%">provides strategic

advice on open source issues and the growth of OpenOffice.org, and

offers analysis on current trends within the community.</P>

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&quot;OpenOffice.org may be the most important open source project

right now,&rdquo; said Miguel de Icaza, founder of the GNOME

project.&nbsp; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;</P>

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<P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%"><B>About

OpenOffice.org </B><BR>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. 

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<P STYLE="font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%"><B>About CollabNet

</B><BR>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

organizations, 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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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%"><B>About Sun

Microsystems, Inc. </B><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium"><BR></SPAN>Since

its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- &quot;The Network Is The

Computer[tm]&quot; -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:

SUNW) to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength

hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be

found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at

http://sun.com.</P>

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