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----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Louis Suarez-Potts <louis.suarez-po...@sun.com> To: announce at openoffice.org Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 8:02:57 PM Subject: [ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org is Seven Today OpenOffice.org community celebrates its 7th anniversary 104 million downloads of the open source productivity suite Today, the open source project OpenOffice.org celebrates its 7th birthday. Founded by Sun Microsystems on October 13th, 2000, continues to experience tremendous growth. The project recently counted 104 million downloads from its website, and downloads have been increasing since the release of OpenOffice.org 2.3 last month. It is widely considered the most important open source productivity suite and one of the largest open source projects. OpenOffice.org is available in more than 80 languages and runs natively on every major platform; it uses the ISO standard, the OpenDocument Format, for its files. Thousands from around the world contribute to its ongoing success, helping with the development, localisation, documentation, user support and marketing of the program. "OpenOffice.org is being developed around the world, and it is being used around the world by governments, businesses and individuals", said Florian Effenberger, Marketing Project Co-Lead of OpenOffice.org. "The community has achieved what few predicted seven years ago, and we have just begun!" In addition to its founder and main contributor Sun Microsystems, OpenOffice.org is also recognizes the contributions of RedFlag Software, IBM, Red Hat, and Novell, among others. OpenOffice.org welcomes the contributions of all organizations and individuals. OpenOffice.org 2.3 can be found at http://download.openoffice.org/2.3.0/ Links to community and professional support, templates, books, etc., can be obtained from http://support.openoffice.org Press Contacts John McCreesh (UTC +01h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead jpmcc at openoffice.org +44 (0)7 810 278 540 Florian Effenberger (UTC +01h00) OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead floeff at openoffice.org +49 8341 9966 0880 Louis Su?rez-Potts (UTC -04h00) OpenOffice.org Community Manager louis at openoffice.org +1 (416) 625-3843 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscribe at openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-help at openoffice.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hanoilug.org/pipermail/hanoilug/attachments/20071013/9bdf3557/attachment.htm
