IBM Joins OpenOffice.org development

Jza · Post by **Jza** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:07 am

I forward this email from Louis Suarez-Potts announcing that IBM is now officially on the boat of OpenOffice.org.

All,
 
A Press Release was issued this morning to announce that IBM are
joining the OOo community:
 
"The OpenOffice.org community today announced that IBM will be joining the
community to collaborate on the development of OpenOffice.org
software. IBM will be making initial code contributions that it has been
developing as part of its Lotus Notes product, including accessibility
enhancements, and will be making ongoing contributions to the feature
richness and code quality of OpenOffice.org. Besides working with the
community on the free productivity suite's software, IBM will also
leverage OpenOffice.org technology in its products."
 
The full announcement is available at:
 
* http://www.openoffice.org/press/ibm_press_release.html
 
And Q & A at:
 
* http://www.openoffice.org/press/ibm_press_faq.html
 
Cheers,
 
Louis
 
 
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Louis Suarez-Potts
Community Manager
OpenOffice.org

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Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:30 pm

Sounds great!

Just curious, any idea of how many people use OpenOffice.org these days?

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 12:58 pm

Wikipedia wrote:Although Microsoft Office retains 95% of the general market, OpenOffice.org and StarOffice have secured 14% of the large enterprise market as of 2004 and 19% of the small to midsize business market in 2005. The OpenOffice.org web site reports more than 62.5 million downloads.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice