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| <h1>Press Kit</h1> |
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| <h2>Quick Facts</h2> |
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| <h3>The Name</h3> |
| Apache OpenOffice™ |
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| <h3>The Community</h3> |
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| Registered Members: >750,000<br> |
| Developers: >100 FTE<br> |
| Committers: > 500<br> |
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| <h3>The Software</h3> |
| Version: 3.4<br> |
| Downloads: >40m<br> |
| Applications: 6<br> |
| Platforms: 8<br> |
| Languages: 28<br> |
| Development: >20 yrs elapsed<br> |
| Size: >10,000 kloc<br> |
| Licence: OSI approved<br> |
| File format: ISO approved |
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| <h3>Licensing</h3> |
| Source Code: Apache License 2.0<br> |
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| <h3>Major Contributors</h3> |
| Sun Microsystems<br> |
| Oracle<br> |
| Novell, Inc.<br> |
| Beijing Redflag CH2000<br> |
| Red Hat, Inc.<br> |
| IBM Corp.<br> |
| Google Inc. |
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| <h3>Quick Links</h3> |
| <a href="/product/">Product Information</a><br> |
| <a href="/license.html">Licensing</a><br> |
| <a href="/images/AOO_logos/AOO4_website_logo.png">Logo</a><br> |
| <a href="/screenshots/">Screenshots</a><br> |
| <a href="/faq.html">FAQ</a><br> |
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| <p>Key facts and figures about Apache OpenOffice for the media.</p> |
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| <h2>Naming</h2> |
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| Name - we are <strong>Apache OpenOffice™</strong> (not <em>Open Office</em> or <em>OpenOffice</em>). |
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| Apache OpenOffice is both the name of a software product and the name of the open-source project |
| which designs, develops, maintains, translates, tests, documents, supports, and |
| promotes the software. |
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| Note: Prior to version 3.4.0 the product was referred to as OpenOffice.org® and that term may still proper when referring to |
| these older releases. |
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| <h2>Key points about the Apache OpenOffice Productivity Suite.</h2> |
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| Apache OpenOffice provides <strong>everything most people need in an office |
| productivity suite</strong>. The main components of Apache OpenOffice |
| are:<br/> |
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| <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html">Writer</a>, a wordprocessor <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/pix/writer-big.png">(screenshot)</a> |
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| <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html">Calc</a>, a spreadsheet <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/pix/calc-big.png">(screenshot)</a> |
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| <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html">Impress</a> a presentation editor <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/pix/impress-big.png">(screenshot)</a> |
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| <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html">Draw</a> a vector graphics editor <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/pix/draw-big.png">(screenshot)</a> |
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| <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html">Base</a> database front-end <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/product/pix/base-big.png">(screenshot)</a> |
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| Apache OpenOffice is stable, reliable, and robust, the product of over twenty years' |
| development. Unlike its major competitor, it was designed from the start as a |
| single piece of software, which makes for higher quality software and a more |
| consistent user experience. It is actively developed, with several releases |
| every year.<br> |
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| Apache OpenOffice is both <strong>easy to use and easy to migrate to</strong>, |
| for both experienced and beginners alike. It has a familiar user interface, and |
| is able to read and write the vast majority of legacy file formats (including |
| common Microsoft Office formats). It is supported in nearly 30 languages, with |
| active support, both community based (free) and from commercial organisations (paid-for). |
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| Apache OpenOffice is released under an open-source licence (Apache License 2.0), which |
| means it may be used <strong>free of any licence fees, for any purpose</strong>: |
| private, governmental, commercial, etc. Once acquired it may be installed on an unlimited number of computers, |
| and may be copied and distributed without restriction. Apache OpenOffice |
| supports extensions, allowing users to add on extra functions easily from <a href="http://extensions.openoffice.org/">an |
| extensions repository</a>. This is a key differentiator from the competition. |
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| <p> |
| Apache OpenOffice is available on all major computing platforms and is supported |
| in nearlt thirty languages. Our best estimate is that Apache OpenOffice currently |
| enjoys over 15% market share for office productivity suites. |
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| <h2>Key points about the Apache OpenOffice Community</h2> |
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| Apache OpenOffice is a project of the Apache Software Foundation, a US-based non-profit organization |
| dedicated to publishing free software for the public good. |
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| The overwhelming majority of Community members are volunteers. A small number are sponsored by their employers to work on |
| Apache OpenOffice. Most of these work in software development. |
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| <h2>Concise history of Apache OpenOffice</h2> |
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| Apache OpenOffice is a mature software product, tracing its origins back over |
| twenty years to a commercial software house in Germany, StarDivision. Following |
| the acquisition of StarDivision by Sun Microsystems in April 1999, |
| OpenOffice.org version 1.0 was released as open-source software on May 1st 2002. It |
| proved hugely successful, and after more than 49 million recorded downloads, |
| version 2.0 was released on 20th October 2005. OpenOffice.org 2 removed the |
| last barriers to migration with a new user interface, improved support for |
| competitors' file formats, and a new integrated database component. It also |
| became the first office suite to support the new Open Document Format for office |
| applications (ODF) natively. OpenOffice.org 3 was announced on October 13, 2008, |
| and recorded 100 million downloads by October 28, 2009. Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in |
| 2010. In June 2011 Oracle contributed the source code and trademarks to the Apache Software Foundation, |
| enabling the OpenOffice.org community to achieve their dream of having OpenOffice maintained as a |
| community-run open source project at an independent foundation. In 2012 the project voted to rename itself |
| to Apache OpenOffice. |
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| <h2>Logos, etc</h2> |
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| Logos may be found <a href="/art/galleries/logos/">here</a> |
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| <h2>Press Releases</h2> |
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| We keep an on-line <a href="press_releases.html">archive of press releases</a>. |
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| We also have a low volume <em>announcements</em> mailing list; you can <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/SummarizeList?listName=announce">browse |
| an archive</a> of these announcements, or subscribe to the list by sending a |
| blank email to <a href="mailto:announce-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org">announce-subscribe@openoffice.apache.org</a>. |
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| <h2>Press Contacts</h2> |
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| Press inquires should be sent to <a href="mailto:press@openoffice.apache.org">press@openoffice.apache.org</a>. |
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