Oracle Demonstrates Continued Support for OpenOffice.org

By ORACLE
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Participates in ODF Plugfest; Maintains Support for Leading ODF-Based Open Source Productivity Suite

BRUSSELS – October 13, 2010

News Facts

Further demonstrating its commitment to the OpenOffice.org community, Oracle today announced that it is participating in the ODF Plugfest (www.odfplugfest.be/) , being held in Brussels, October 14-15.
On the fifth anniversary of the Open Document Format (ODF) becoming an International Standard, Oracle applauds the community and OASIS for its efforts and renews its commitment to the ODF-based OpenOffice.org (OpenOffice.org/) productivity suite.
Oracle’s growing team of developers, QA engineers, and user experience personnel will continue developing, improving, and supporting OpenOffice.org (OpenOffice.org/) as open source, building on the 7.5 million lines of code already contributed to the community.
Oracle demonstrates its commitment to OpenOffice.org with new versions of this free product in collaboration with the community – OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 and OpenOffice.org (OpenOffice.org/) 3.3 Beta – both representing advances in features and performance advancements with the introduction of new tools and extensions. Significant community contributions include localization, quality assurance, porting, documentation and user experience.
Oracle’s ongoing support for OpenOffice.org reinforces its commitment to developing software based on open standards, providing IT users with flexibility, lower short and long-term costs and freedom from vendor lock-in.
By investing significant resources in developing, testing, optimizing, and supporting other open source technologies such as MySQL, GlassFish, Linux, PHP, Apache, Eclipse, Berkeley DB, NetBeans, VirtualBox, Xen, and InnoDB, Oracle is invested in their future development and contributing back to the communities that produce it.
With more than 100 million users, OpenOffice.org (OpenOffice.org/) is the most advanced, feature-rich open source productivity suite, and continued contributions through www.openoffice.org (www.openoffice.org/) will only improve this already popular software. Oracle views ODF as critical to providing OpenOffice.org (OpenOffice.org/) with a complete, open, and modern document format, empowering interoperability and choice on the desktop.
Oracle invites community participation in the OpenOffice.org conference, ODF Plugfests, and discussion groups, and welcomes contributions to the code base.
 

Supporting Resources

Oracle and OpenOffice.org Webcast (oracle.com.edgesuite.net/ivt/4000/8104/9236/12637/lobby_external_flash_clean_480×360/default.htm)
Oracle and Open Source Support (www.oracle.com/us/technologies/open-source/index.htm)
Oracle Open Office (www.oracle.com/office)
OSS Technical Resources (oss.oracle.com/)
OpenOffice.org (www.openoffice.org)
Planet OpenOffice.org Community Blogs (planet.services.openoffice.org/)
“Open for Business,” by Rich Schwerin (www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2010/o40interview-086226.html)

 

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Marcie Bradley

Oracle
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Susan Vander May
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