OpenOffice.org 1.0: One Year Later

All,
A year ago today, 2002-05-01, OpenOffice.org 1.0 was released.  Since then,
around 10 million people have downloaded the application from the volunteer
mirror network.  

When we released OpenOffice.org 1.0 we did not expect it to be quite so
popular.  Yes, we knew it was great and we certainly figured the servers
would be taxed. But the news media picked up on the release  and ran with
the story (see http://www.openoffice.org/news/1.0news.html), and pretty soon
seemingly everyone wanted to download the wonder application that read MS
files, writes MS files, and does it in XML while running on Linux or Windows
or Solaris, too.  Our testimonial page reflects just a portion of the praise
we have received since the release of OpenOffice.org 1.0 (see
http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/testimonials.html).

The thanks for all this is to the community making up OpenOffice.org.  We
could not list all who have contributed to the project and product, for the
project has evolved in the last year to include over 95,000 registered
members and hundreds of active contributors.  We have now ports to just
about every Unix flavor under the Sun, including ports to LinuxPPC, Mac OS X
and many more (see http://porting.openoffice.org).  OpenOffice.org runs, too
in many languages and is supported by over 10 Native-Lang projects with
Hindi and Thai on the way (see http://native-lang.openoffice.org/).  And the
recently released SDK promises to make it much easier for developers to
build on the product (see http://website.openoffice.org/developer/).

This last year has seen an extraordinary amount of work on the part of a
community that stretches around the globe, is multilingual, and that
includes--uniquely--everyone from marketers to developers.  It is a
community that works--really well.  OpenOffice.org, the community that has
made OpenOffice.org 1.0 possible and successful, is changing the world.

Congratulation, all!
-
Louis Suarez-Potts
Community Manager
OpenOffice.org






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