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| <p>2003-08-19</p> |
| <p>The following articles represent a selection of those pertaining to OpenOffice.org, |
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| <td rowspan="2" class="alt8"><a href="http://www.informationweek.com" target="_blank">InformationWeek.com</a></td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://www.informationweek.com/815/15uwbp.htm" target="_blank">The |
| Case For Open Source<br> |
| </a><i>December 4, 2000</i></td> |
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| <td class="alt9">Bill Portelli, CEO of CollabNet, Inc., gives a compelling |
| account of why Sun Microsystems and a growing number of other companies |
| have found the most profitable way to develop software is to give it away.</td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" class="alt8"><a href="http://www.batv.com">BusinessNow</a></td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://www.batv.com/co_html/collabnet.html">CollabNet |
| on TV!</a><br> |
| <i>November 26, 2000</i> </td> |
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| <td class="alt9">BusinessNow presents an illuminating look at CollabNet's |
| work in creating the new model of software development. A must see for |
| those curious about what goes on at a major open-source consulting office.</td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" class="alt8"><a href="http://www.linux-community.de">Linux |
| Community </a></td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://www.linux-community.de/News/story?storyid=617">Gewinner |
| des Linux New Media Award 2000</a><br> |
| <i>November 10, 2000</i></td> |
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| <td class="alt9">Am 9. November 2000 fand auf dem LinuxPark in München |
| die Verleihung des ersten Linux New Media Awards statt. Vor einem illustren |
| Publikum wurden acht Preise in den Kategorien Beste Web-Software, Innovativste |
| Desktop-Software, Praktischstes Kommandozeilen-Werkzeug, Beste Linux-Distribution, <a href="//awards/awardpic.html">Innovativste |
| Open Source Software einer Firma</a>, Bester vorkonfigurierter Linux-Rechner, |
| Coolstes Embedded Linux System und Bestes Buch zum Thema Linux oder Open |
| Source vergeben. </td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" width="25%" > <a href="http://www.sun.com">Sun Microsystems, |
| Inc.</a> </td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2000-10/sunflash.20001016.4.html">The |
| Sun Press Release on Making the Code Available</a><br> |
| <i>October 16, 2000</i> </td> |
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| <td class="alt9">Forty-five minutes after the code was released, the deluge |
| of download requests was so great that the OpenOffice.org servers were |
| brought down, if only temporarily. As analysts and officials have suggested, |
| this demand for the StarOffice source code demonstrates the enthusiasm |
| open-source developers have for OpenOffice and the potential of the project |
| to succeed.</td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" class="alt8"><a href="http://www.zdnet.com">ZDNet News</a></td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2640108,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01">Sun |
| Puts StarOffice into Open Source</a><br> |
| <i>October 13, 2000</i> </td> |
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| <td class="alt9">Sun Microsystems Inc. is billing it as the biggest project |
| in open source history. As of today, developers interested in viewing, |
| tinkering with, and/or licensing the StarOffice desktop office suite or |
| its component parts are free to download the code. "This will be programming |
| in the large made public for the first time," said Bill Roth, Sun group |
| product manager. "This is nine times the size of Mozilla."</td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" class="alt8"><a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com">Linux Today</a></td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-10-13-002-21-NW-DT-SW">StarOffice |
| Code Released in Largest Open Source Project</a><br> |
| <i>October 13, 2000</i> </td> |
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| <td class="alt9">Sun Microsystems is taking huge steps into the world of |
| open source software today, and at the same time is taking great pains |
| not to make those steps awkward ones. Sun's joint effort with CollabNet |
| kicked into high gear on the OpenOffice Web site at 5 a.m. PST this morning |
| with the release of much of the source code for the upcoming 6.0 version |
| of StarOffice. According to Sun, this release of 9 million lines of code |
| under GPL is the beginning of the largest open source software project |
| ever. </td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" class="alt8"> <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/" target="_blank">NewsForge</a> </td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/11/13/165203">Here |
| and now with the sober-minded Sander Vesik</a><br> |
| <i>November 14, 2000</i></td> |
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| <td class="alt9">Julie Bresnick interviews OpenOffice.org's Dublin-based |
| release engineer about his background, thoughts, and work.</td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" class="alt8"><a href="http://www.wired.com">Wired</a></td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,39452,00.html">Sun |
| Opens StarOffice Code</a><br> |
| <i>Wired, October 13</i> </td> |
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| <td class="alt9">Sun Microsystems has turned its office-productivity software |
| loose on the open-source community, hoping that programmers will do for |
| it what they have done for Linux and Netscape 6. And if the stampede to |
| download the source code for its StarOffice 6.0 application suite is any |
| indication, that may very well happen. </td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" class="alt8"><a href="http://www.devx.com/" target="_blank">DevX</a></td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://linux.devx.com/articles/2000/interv082500-1.shtml">StarOffice |
| Chief Offers Insights on Going Open Source </a> <br> |
| <i>August 25, 2000</i></td> |
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| <td class="alt9">DevX Senior Editor Stefan Grünwedel speaks with StarDivision's |
| founder Marco Boerries on OpenOffice.org, Open Source, and more.</td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" class="alt8"><a href="http://www.sun.com">Sun Microsystems, |
| Inc.</a></td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://www.sun.com/software/gnome">GNOME Foundation |
| Adopts OpenOffice.org Productivity Software As The Core of The GNOME |
| Office Suite</a><br> |
| <i>August 15, 2000</i> </td> |
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| <td class="alt9">GNOME Office will equip users with a wide array of compatible |
| and intuitive productivity features, such as integrated mail, calendar, |
| and address management; network configuration and management; a network-based |
| file management system; internationalization; an object-oriented application |
| framework; CORBA support for distributed software; layout and rendering |
| of internationalized text; and much, much more. </td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" class="alt8"> <a href="http://www.linuxplanet.com">Linux |
| Planet</a> </td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/previews/2470/1/">A |
| Hands-On Review of the Open Source OpenOffice: Building from the Source</a><br> |
| <i>July 24, 2000</i></td> |
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| <td class="alt9">The big news today may be the unveiling of the OpenOffice |
| web site, but lost in the shuffle has been any reporting on exactly what |
| Sun and CollabNet are offering on OpenOffice.org. . . . As you might expect, |
| Sun did more than just release an Open Source product: it also cleaned |
| up the code and made some significant changes to the software. </td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" class="alt8"> <a href="http://www.computerworld.com">Computerworld</a> </td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/Printer_Friendly_Version/frame/0,1212,NAV47_STO47334-,00.html">Open-source |
| Community Welcomes StarOffice Release Under GPL</a><br> |
| <i>July 20, 2000</i> </td> |
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| <td class="alt9">The announcement [of the release of the source code] received |
| much attention at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Monterey, Calif., |
| yesterday, with many open-source luminaries applauding the move. Sun is |
| positioning StarOffice as a replacement for Microsoft Office 2000. [StarOffice] |
| runs on Windows, Linux, OS/2 and Solaris. StarOffice joins other open-source |
| suites, including Gnome Office. </td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" width="25%" > <a href="http://www.eweek.com">eWeek</a> </td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2605874,00.html">Open-Source |
| StarOffice Earns Early Praise</a><br> |
| <i>July 20, 2000</i> </td> |
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| <td class="alt9">Sun Microsystems Inc.'s decision Wednesday to release the |
| source code of its StarOffice productivity application suite to the open-source |
| development community under the GNU General Public License is reaping early |
| praise. </td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" width="25%" ><a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com">LinuxToday</a></td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-07-19-016-04-PS-DT-SW">Smart |
| Partner: Sun To Open StarOffice Code In October</a><br> |
| <i>July 19, 2000</i> </td> |
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| <td class="alt9">Sun also is creating an independent OpenOffice.org Foundation |
| modeled on the Apache Foundation. Sun is funding the foundation to get |
| it started but will hold a minority position and plans to name other partners |
| soon. "Getting agreement inside Sun was an endeavor, but what I wanted |
| to achieve was creating an open alternative to Microsoft Office, and that |
| is bigger than GPLing the source code," Boerries said. "In my discussions |
| with customers and communities and governments it became clear that for |
| this project GPL was the right license, and it proves that Sun is an innovative |
| and fast-moving company in doing the right thing. </td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" width="25%" > <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com">UpsideToday</a> </td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://www.upside.com/Open_Season/3976351f0.html">Sun |
| spells out new license: G-P-L</a><br> |
| <i>July 19, 2000</i> </td> |
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| <td class="alt9">As Marco Boerries, VP of Sun Microsystems enunciated at |
| the O'Reilly Open Source Conference : "Let me just say three letters: G-P-L," said |
| Boerries, triggering a loud ovation. (For those not in the know, Boerries |
| was speaking of the GNU General Public License -- the license that protects |
| the Gnu/Linux operating system.) </td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" class="alt8"><a href="http://www.theregister.com">The Register</a></td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/12041.html">Boerries |
| confirms StarOffice to go GPL, Mac version</a><br> |
| <i>July 19, 2000</i> </td> |
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| <td class="alt9">StarOffice creator Marco Boerries has confirmed that Sun |
| intends to GPL the productivity suite. Sun made the official announcement |
| today, but leaking to reporters earlier, Boerries said that source code |
| for the next version of StarOffice, 6.0, will be available for download |
| from 13th October. </td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" class="alt8"><a href="http://www.sun.com">Sun Microsystems, |
| Inc.</a></td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="//press/sun_release.html">The |
| Sun Press Release on OpenOffice.org</a><br> |
| <i>July 19, 2000</i> </td> |
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| <td class="alt9">Today at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Monterey, |
| California, Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it will release the source |
| code of its StarOffice (TM) Suite, a leading, high quality, office productivity |
| application software suite, to the open source community under the GNU |
| General Public License (GPL). Sun also announced OpenOffice.org will be |
| formed and managed by Collab.Net and will serve as the coordination point |
| for the source code, the definition of XML-based file formats, and the |
| definition of language-independent office application programming interfaces |
| (APIs.) </td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" class="alt8"><a href="http://www.collab.net">CollabNet, Inc.</a></td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="//press/collab_net_release.html">The |
| CollabNet Press Release on OpenOffice.org</a><br> |
| <i>July 19, 2000</i> </td> |
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| <td width="75%">Collab.Net, Inc., a leading provider of collaborative software |
| development services, based on open source principles - today announced |
| that Sun Microsystems has selected the Collab.Net SourcecastSM environment |
| as the infrastructure for OpenOffice.org, the open source community site |
| for its StarOffice product. Collab.Net is providing a global development |
| platform and support for OpenOffice.org and consulting with Sun to establish |
| OpenOffice.org as a key open source virtual community. </td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" class="alt8"><a href="http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/">SiliconValley.com </a></td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/sun071900.htm">Sun |
| Looks To Boost StarOffice Suite by Opening Its Code</a><br> |
| <i>July 18, 2000</i> </td> |
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| <td class="alt9">Sun Microsystems Inc. will announce today that it plans |
| to make the underlying code of its StarOffice suite, a set of office applications |
| that compete directly with Microsoft Corp.'s popular Office suite, available |
| for free to software developers. </td> |
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| <td rowspan="2" class="alt8"><a href="http://www.infoworld.com">InfoWorld.com</a></td> |
| <td class="alt9"><a href="http://www.maximumlinux.com/content/news/2000/07/17/11104">Sun |
| Opens StarOffice Source Code</a><br> |
| <i>July 17, 2000</i> </td> |
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| <td class="alt9">PALO ALTO, CALIF. (Reuters) - Sun Microsystems Inc., the |
| owner of the free StarOffice suite of programs that competes with Microsoft |
| Corp.'s Office programs, plans to make the source for StarOffice public, |
| in an effort to give the fledgling program a boost with software developers. </td> |
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