[nflug] [Fwd: [ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here]

[Greg Neumann]

Thought you guys would like to hear this. I've tried as much as I can to 
support this project, and I think it's coming along nicely.
Thanks for letting me get in the plug.
-Greg


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Subject: 	[ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here
Date: 	Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:04:13 -0400
From: 	Louis Suarez-Potts <luispo at gmail.com>
Reply-To: 	announce at openoffice.org
To: 	announce at openoffice.org
CC: 	discuss <discuss at openoffice.org>, users at openoffice.org, 
dev at openoffice.org, dev at native-lang.openoffice.org



All,

OpenOffice.org 2.0 Is Here

20 October, 2005

OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the productivity suite that individuals,  
governments, and corporations around the world have been expecting  
for the last two years. Easy to use and fluidly interoperable with  
every major office suite, OpenOffice.org 2.0 realises the potential  
of open source.  Besides a powerful new database module and advanced  
XML capabilities, OpenOffice.org natively supports the  
internationally standardised OpenDocument format, which several  
countries, as well as the U.S. state of Massachusetts, have  
established as the default for office documents.  More than any other  
suite, OpenOffice.org 2.0 gives users around the globe the tools to  
be engaged and productive members of their society.

Available in 36 languages, with more on the way, and able to run  
natively on Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X (X11) and several other  
platforms, OpenOffice.org banishes software segregation and isolation  
and dramatically levels the playing field. And, with its support for  
the OASIS standard OpenDocument format, OpenOffice.org eliminates the  
fear of vendor lock in or format obsolescence. The OpenDocument  
format can be used by any office application, ensuring that documents  
can be viewed, edited and printed for generations to come.   
OpenOffice.org 2.0 is a breath of hope for small economies that can  
now have a local language office suite well adapted to their needs  
and to their economical possibilities, reducing their dependency on  
the interests of proprietary software vendors.

"OpenOffice.org is on a path toward being the most popular office  
suite the world has ever seen and is providing users with safety,  
choice, and an opportunity to participate in one of the broadest  
community efforts the Internet has ever seen. As a member of that  
community, I'd like to offer my heartiest congratulations." -  
Jonathan Schwartz - President and CEO of Sun Microsystems.

Built by a community including Sun Microsystems, its primary sponsor  
and contributor, Novell, Red Hat, Debian, Propylon, Intel, as well as  
independent programmers, translators, writers, and marketers;  
OpenOffice.org 2.0 demonstrates the success, dedication and  
proficiency of the open source software community.

That community now includes the City of Vienna, which recently  
started deploying OpenOffice.org throughout. "We are very happy about  
the functionality and quality of the OpenOffice.org software. We are  
confident that OpenOffice.org will be made available to all of our  
18,000 workstation users." - Brigitte Lutz, City of Vienna.

Louis Suárez-Potts, OpenOffice.org Community Manager, commented that  
"OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the culmination of a collaborative process  
involving thousands working in dozens of languages everywhere in the  
world. It shows that open source can produce software of the highest  
quality and assure the robustness, usability and security that users  
expect in their office suite."

In addition to the OpenDocument format, the redesigned user interface  
and a new database module, OpenOffice.org 2.0 also adds improved PDF  
support, a superior spreadsheet module, enhanced desktop integration  
and several other features that take advantage of its advanced XML  
capabilities, such as the ability to easily create, edit and use XForms.

For more detailed information regarding OpenOffice.org 2.0, please  
refer to the Press Kit at http://www.openoffice.org/press/2.0/ 
index.html .

Congratulations All,

The OpenOffice.org Community



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