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| <h3>DEVELOPER RELEASE OF THE OPENOFFICE.ORG OFFICE SUITE FOR MAC OS X NOW AVAILABLE |
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| <h4> Community Development Reaches Milestone of the Mac OS X Port of OpenOffice.org |
| Office Suite </h4> |
| <p> May 7, 2002 - The Openoffice.org community (<a href="/">/</a>) |
| today announced the availability of the first milestone build of the Mac OS |
| X port of the OpenOffice productivity suite. This build uses the X11 Windowing |
| System from <a href="http://www.xfree86.org">XFree86.org</a> to run on either |
| Mac OS X or Darwin, and is <a href="http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html">available |
| today</a> for developers interested in helping finish the port. </p> |
| <p> “I have been astonished at the speed and quality of the work the community |
| has done. We have been working together in a tight, efficient ensemble, and |
| have now something we can use," said Ed Peterlin, Community developer, |
| OpenOffice.org. "This is exciting for me as a Mac user -- it's been incredibly |
| fun to get this far -- and know that we will be able to finish this with just |
| a little more help." </p> |
| <p> "Apple encourages Open Source development, and supports the open source |
| community through the Darwin Project," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president |
| of Worldwide Developer Relations. "Apple is delighted that a Mac OS X port |
| of the major open source office suite, OpenOffice.org 1.0, has progressed so |
| far so quickly." </p> |
| <p> Earlier this month, the OpenOffice.org community announced <a href="../dev_docs/source/1.0.0/index.html">OpenOffice.org |
| 1.0</a>, the open source office suite, developed over a period of 18 months |
| through the global, collaborative effort of many thousands of volunteers. The |
| OpenOffice.org 1.0 office suite features key desktop applications, – including |
| word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and drawing programs – in more |
| than 25 languages. </p> |
| <p> The code for the Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.org has been in development by |
| the community since April 2001, when the code base was released by Sun Microsystems, |
| Inc. The current release, a pre-alpha release is targeted to developers familiar |
| with developing for the Mac OS X platform. </p> |
| <p> "The developer release of OpenOffice for Mac OS X is a great demonstration |
| of the power of Open Source software and its ability to support multiple platforms." |
| said Zaheda Bhorat, Community Manager, OpenOffice.org, Sun Microsystems Inc. |
| "Combining the enthusiasm and expertise of the OpenOffice.org community |
| and the UNIX-based, open standards nature of Mac OS X - such as its support |
| for popular Open Source software like X11 and gcc - enabled us to add exciting |
| new platforms like Mac OS X to our large and growing list of platforms." |
| </p> |
| <p> The OpenOffice.org 1.0 software runs stably and natively on multiple platforms, |
| including Linux, PPC Linux, Solaris, Windows and other flavors of Unix. The |
| Mac OS X developer release uses a ZeroG installer (http://www.ZeroG.com). The |
| OpenOffice.org community wishes to thank ZeroG in this key contribution to delivering |
| this port. </p> |
| <p> The Max OS X build is currently available as an alpha release in English only, |
| although the OpenOffice.org 1.0 is currently available in more than 25 languages. |
| It is only a matter of time, once this port is completed, that the OpenOffice.org |
| community will implement the localizations. </p> |
| <p> Developers interested in contributing to making this exciting port a part |
| of the standard OpenOffice.org suite offering can find the tools and resources |
| on the OpenOffice.org site. The next step, now that the port has advanced to |
| this stage, is to create a beta release using the Aqua interface for end users |
| to help finalize. And the OpenOffice.org community is willing to make it happen. |
| </p> |
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| About OpenOffice.org </h4> |
| <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 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. </p> |
| <p> OpenOffice.org is the largest open source project, with over 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. |
| </p> |
| <p> Copyright The OpenOffice.org community (<a href="/">www.openoffice.org</a>) |
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