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100,000,000 downloads of OpenOffice.org 3

29 October 2009: On October 28th. 2009, the one hundred millionth person clicked on the Download OpenOffice.org button since version 3.0 of the software was announced just over one year ago. Join in the celebrations leading up to OOoCon 2009 - the "Cento Milioni" conference - in Orvieto, Italy from November 4th-6th 2009.

Oracle's Plan for OpenOffice.org

27 October 2009: An updated version of the FAQ on Oracle and Sun contains a section which expresses Oracle's intend to continue developing and supporting OpenOffice.org as open source.

Beta Release of OpenOffice.org 3.2

4 September 2009: Have a look at the features and enhancements of the upcoming OpenOffice.org 3.2 release with our beta version. The final release is expected in December.

OpenOffice.org 2.4.3 is available for download

4 September 2009: OpenOffice.org 2.4.3 was officially released today for users of the legacy series. Read all about the release and download it now!

OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 is available for download

31 August 2009: OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 was officially released to the world today. Read all about the release and download it now!

OOoCon Call for Papers

Send in your proposals for this year's OpenOffice.org Conference!

OpenOffice.org 3.1 is available for download

07 May 2009: OpenOffice.org 3.1 was officially released to the world at 09:00 UTC today. Read all about the new features in this release and download it now!

OpenOffice.org scoops Favorite Office Software Award

01 May 2009: Linux Journal is proud to announce that OpenOffice has won its 2009 Readers' Choice Award for "Favorite Office Program". See our Awards Page.

50 million downloads

26 Mar 2009: Yesterday we recorded the 50 millionth download of OpenOffice.org from http://download.openoffice.org since OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released in October last year. The download counter is updated every day and can be seen on the Marketing Planet. Congratulations to all the community members who contributed to such a fabulously successful product!

A new Planet

10 Mar 2009: Read the new OpenOffice.org Planet for all the blogs worth reading on OpenOffice.org topics.

Meet us at CeBIT!

OpenOffice.org will be at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany, from March 3rd until March 8th. Visit us in hall 6, booth E46-12 and listen to one of our lectures!

OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 released

OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 has been released. Download your copy now.

We're off the scale!

09 Dec 2008: The download thermometer hit the 20 million mark and will no longer be updated. For the latest statistics, see the Bouncer statistics.

Have you checked the temperature?

15 Nov 2008: Our download thermometer has been updated with the latest Bouncer statistics.

OpenOffice.org 2.4.2 available

29 Oct 2008: The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce the release of OpenOffice.org 2.4.2, a minor update of OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 released in June 2008. OpenOffice.org 2.4.2 (EN-US for Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and Solaris) is available for immediate download from http://download.openoffice.org. Please contact the appropriate native-language project http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html for details of availability in other languages, and the appropriate porting project http://porting.openoffice.org for details of other platforms.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 is hot

26 Oct 2008: Our download thermometer shows how hot OpenOffice.org is! Note: the thermometer uses data obtained via our download page. It does not show downloads via other sources - e.g. Linux users who obtain OpenOffice.org 3.0 directly from their Linux distribution.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 is available now

13 Oct 2008: Following three years of continuous improvement, OpenOffice.org has now reached the landmark version 3.0, with a host of new features including native support for Mac OS X users. Head to http://download.openoffice.org to download the en-US, da, de, fr, it, ja, ru, sv versions, and monitor the platforms and languages page for details of the availability of other versions.

NetBeans is ten

20 October 2008: NetBeans, the open-source platform and IDE for Java development celebrates its 10th birthday 20 October, a week after OpenOffice.org celebrated its 8th. But the interesting point about NetBeans for OpenOffice.org developers is its integration with OpenOffice.org. With NetBeans, one can easily write extensions, and that's only a start. See:

In a similar light, the Eclipse open-source framework also provides powerful tools for creating OpenOffice.org extensions. See:

 

Community Innovation Program winners announced

06 Oct 2008: The Program Committee has published the names of the winners (including team leaders) to this important competition held the first half of this year and funded by Sun Microsystems. To learn who won and what they did (and are doing), see the Community Innovation Program Pages.

ODF Olympiad 2008

20 Sep 2008: The ODF Olympiad launches today! The ODF--short for OpenDocument Format--is a fundamentally important format that gives to tens of millions around the world invaluable access to electronic documents. OpenOffice.org proudly stands as the primary implementation of this format. The Olympiad, which is global, is open to all students, and we invite them to participate.

Prize awarded

SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards

OpenOffice.org was awarded three prizes in the SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards! Thanks to all our users for their votes!

InfoWorld: 2008 Bossie Award

OpenOffice.org was considered the "Best of open source productivity application," an award chosen by InfoWorld Test Center editors, analysts, and reviewers.

OOoCon 2008: Beijing

The OpenOffice.org Community Conference, OOoCon, will take place 5-7 November in Beijing. The event, which promises to be as enjoyable as it will be important, will mark the first time OOoCon has taken place outside of Europe, and for this we thank the primary host, Redflag 2000 and the Chinese and East Asian OpenOffice.org community.

We invite all to participate! For more information, including travel and registration details, please visit the site:

Events

5-7 Nov. OOoCon 2008, Beijing, China
19-22 Oct. Open Source World Conference, Málaga, Spain

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