Πέρασε ήδη ένας χρόνος από την πρώτη έκδοση 1.0 του OpenOffice.org.

Παρόλο που ήταν αναμενόμενο να υπάρξει ενδιαφέρον, κανείς δεν περίμενε οτι θα υπάρξει τόσο μεγάλη θετική ανταπόκριση,

πράγμα που φάινεται και στην παρακάτω ανακοίνωση του Louis Suarez-Potts, Community Manager του OpenOffice.org

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