OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. OpenOffice.org is sponsored by Sun Microsystems, which is the primary contributor of code to the Project. Over 180,000 people from every nearly every curve of the globe have joined this Project with the idea of creating the best possible office suite that all can use. They do so under the auspices of "open source."
Release Schedule:
- first translation handover: January 18th, 2008
- UI and Feature_freeze: March 6th, 2008
- Translation update 3.0 start: March 13th, 2008
- Translation update 3.0 delivery: April 3rd, 2008, code freeze for Beta
- begin TCM testing: April 10th, 2008
- "last cws integration" for Beta: April 17th, 2008
- OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta: April 30th, 2008
- code_freeze, last regular translation delivery: July 4th, 2008
- Last cws integration for fixes: July 18th, 2008
- release candidate for all languages: July 25th, 2008, begin of TCM testing
- Product release: September 2nd, 2008 or OOoCon 2008 mid September ?