OpenOffice.org 2.0 Productivity Suite Released
October 21st, 2005OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. With new features, advanced XML capabilities and native support for the OASIS Standard OpenDocument format, OpenOffice.org 2.0 gives users around the globe a new productive tool.
A press release says
“Available in 36 languages, with more on the way, and able to run natively on Windows, GNU/Linux, Sun 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.”
The OpenOffice.org Project is an international community of volunteers and sponsors including founding sponsor and primary contributor, Sun Microsystems. OpenOffice.org develops, supports, and promotes the open-source office productivity suite.
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I wanted to mention, for anyone who has not been following OpenDocument and XForms, that the thing you might like most about OpenOffice.org is that the new interface is just a lot easier. Getting to the different tool sets is much simpler, so it’s a lot easier to figure out where things are and how to do what you need to if you’re new to the program. (Experienced users–the Big Blue triangle is gone and the specialized toolsets can be anchored as you need them.) Also, anyone who was frustrated before by Impress is going to have a much easier time. It’s far more like Powerpoint, with more animations.