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OpenOffice Wayne S. Rossi Mike Toresco for Open Source Development Overview OpenOffices purpose The Details Creation Licensing Projects Advantages and Disadvantages Conclusions Why OpenOffice? The OpenOffice mission statement: To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. In other words, make an open source project into the leading office suite program. The Great Showdown? The Great Showdown? FIGHT! Where OpenOffice Came From StarOffice was developed by StarDivision in Germany during the 1980s In 1999, Sun Microsystems bought StarDivision. StarOffice 5.2 was released in June 2000 StarOffice was distributed in a pay version and a (proprietary) free version. Going Open Source In 2000, Sun open sourced the StarOffice code under dual licenses: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL) In 2002, OpenOffice.org goes online. What theyre doing now Accepted Projects Includes API, DBA, GSL, XML, various applications, underlying framework, and documentation. Native/Lang Projects Includes Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and Thai language support for OpenOffice. Incubator/Whiteboard Projects Community-sponsored or experimental projects. So Why Use It, Anyway? This presentation was made using Impress in OpenOffice v. 1.0.1. OpenOffice can generate fully Microsoft Office compatible files. Word Documents (Writer) Excel Spreadsheets (Calc) PowerPoint presentations (Impress) Slices, dices, and makes julienne fries! OpenOffice is designed to look and feel similar to Microsoft Office. Its probably out for your operating system. If youre running Windows, Linux, Solaris, LinuxPPC, FreeBSD, or Mac OS X (still in beta), you can download OpenOffice v. 1.0.3. And, since its open source... OpenOffice can be downloaded c