"This year OpenOffice.org is really coming into its own," Mark Herring, senior director of Network.com for Sun Microsystems said. Roughly 1 million copies of OpenOffice.org are downloaded per week, not including distributions through vendors such as Google. To date, about 110 million copies of the software have been downloaded, he said.
Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA)
on Monday plans to announce several key enhancements to its StarOffice and OpenOffice.org office productivity software suites.StarOffice 8 and the corresponding open version, OpenOffice.org 2.3, have both been updated with a variety of new features, including the ability to edit for blog servers along with enhanced charting capabilities and tools to reduce the size of presentations, Mark Herring, senior director of Network.com for Sun Microsystems, told LinuxInsider. The new server
version of StarOffice, meanwhile, now includes the ability to convert documents in bulk into the Acrobat PDF file format."These new capabilities further affirm StarOffice 8 as an alternative to Microsoft Office, offering a full-featured office productivity suite that is affordable, flexible and compatible with Microsoft Office," Sun said. "These updates also enhance OpenOffice.org, the open source project building the world's most widely distributed open source multiplatform and multilingual productivity suite."
110 Million Downloads
OpenOffice.org is a free, open source platform designed to be interoperable with every major commercial office suite and compatible with the internationally standardized OpenDocument Format. It runs natively on Windows, GNU/Linux, Sun Solaris, Mac OS X and several other platforms, and is backed by the OpenOffice.org Project, an international community of volunteers and sponsors, including Sun.
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