Open Office
OpenOffice.org is both a product and an open-source project. Both have been in existence since October 13, 2000. OpenOffice.org 1.0, the product, was released on April 30, 2002.
OpenOffice.org's Mission Statement is...
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.
The OpenOffice.org project is primarily sponsored by Oracle, which is the primary contributor of code to the Project. Our other corporate contributors include Novell, RedHat, RedFlag CH2000, and IBM. Additionally over 450,000 people from nearly every curve of the globe have joined this Project with the idea of creating the best possible office suite that all can use. This is the essence of an "open source." community!
The second edition of the OpenOffice.org 3 Writer Guide (updated for OOo V3.2) was published in March. PDFs of the full book and the individual chapters are on the Documentation wiki.
The printed edition of the book is available at low cost from Lulu.com.
I have over fifteen years experience in systems and network configuration and support. For most of that time I have been working with Open Source Software, and believe that Open Source software provides the best solutions for business, educational and personal use.
