Press KitQuick FactsThe NameOpenOffice.orgThe CommunityRegistered Members: >750,000Sponsored developers: >100 FTE Committers: > 500 Native Language Projects: >100 The SoftwareVersion: 3.0Downloads: >100m Applications: 6 Platforms: 6 Languages: >80 Development: >20 yrs elapsed Size: >10,000 kloc Licences: OSI approved File format: ISO approved LicensingSource Code: LGPLOther: PDL Major ContributorsSun Microsystems, Inc.Novell, Inc. Beijing Redflag CH2000 Red Hat, Inc. IBM Corp. Google Inc. Quick LinksProduct InformationLicensing Logos Screenshots FAQ Community Council Native Language Confederation (NLC) Key facts and figures about OpenOffice.org for the media. Naming
Key points about the OpenOffice.org CommunityThe Community is organised into projects, covering all aspects of our activity. In languages alone, we have nearly 100 language localisation projects, with over 70 supported languages currently available. Over five thousand people have signed up to take part in project activities and are Community members. As an internet based worldwide community, we do not have a physical headquarters in any one country. We have a Community bank account in Germany, and some of the bigger native-language projects have not-for-profit or equivalent status in their countries. The overwhelming majority of Community members are volunteers. A small number (probably not more than a hundred or so) are sponsored by their employers to work on OpenOffice.org. Most of these work in software development. The Community acknowledges with gratitude the sponsorship it receives from its founding and primary sponsor, Sun Microsystems. Other significant contributors include major industry players like Novell, RedHat, RedFlag CH2000, IBM, and Google. Key points about the OpenOffice.org Productivity Suite.
OpenOffice.org is available on all major computing platforms and is supported in over seventy languages. Our best estimate is that OpenOffice.org currently enjoys over 15% market share for office productivity suites. Potted history of OpenOffice.orgOpenOffice.org is a mature software product, tracing its origins back over twenty years to a commercial software house in Germany, StarDivision. Following the acquisition of StarDivision by Sun Microsystems in April 1999, OpenOffice.org version 1.0 was released as open-source software on May 1st 2002. It proved hugely successful, and after more than 49 million recorded downloads, version 2.0 was released on 20th October 2005. OpenOffice.org 2 removed the last barriers to migration with a new user interface, improved support for competitors' file formats, and a new integrated database component. It also became the first office suite to support the new OpenDocument Format for office applications (ODF) natively. ODF was adopted as an ISO standard on May 1st 2006 and is the only office document format to be approved at this level. OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released in October 2008, and recorded 60 million downloads from the OpenOffice.org download site alone before the release of the current version, 3.1, in May 2009. Logos etcLogos may be found here Press ReleasesWe keep an on-line archive of press releases. We also have a low volume announcements mailing list; you can browse an archive of these announcements, or subscribe to the list by sending a blank email to announce-subscribe@openoffice.org. ContactsGlobal ContactsPlease remember that these numbers DO NOT provide support for OpenOffice.org. Please DO NOT call them for support requests. Instead, please see our website at support.openoffice.org. John McCreesh (UTC +01h00) Florian Effenberger (UTC +01h00) Louis Suárez-Potts (UTC -04h00) Worldwide Marketing Contacts |
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