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Measuring the True Success of OpenOffice.org

at contributions associated by metrics to OpenOffice.org and makes the case that Sun's tight control over the codebase and the lack of enough volunteer contributors leaves the development slowly stagnating over a period of time. Michael Meeks has recently started strongly advocating the position that Sun needs to setup a more independent OpenOffice.org foundation or otherwise allow more relaxed policies for commit access and be less rigid about assignment of copyright to itself for the development community of Openoffice.org to thrive beyond Sun developers.

Measuring the True Success of OpenOffice.org

Michael Meeks who leads the OpenOffice.org development team within Novell has taken adetailed look at contributions associated by metrics to OpenOffice.org and makes the case that Sun's tight control over the codebase and the lack of enough volunteer contributors leaves the development slowly stagnating over a period of time.

Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org

Is success measured in downloads, or up-loads ? are bugs filed as good as bugs fixed ? are volunteer marketers as valuable as volunteer developers ? If we have lots of bugs filed and lots of volunteer management material is that success ? is the pace of change important ? Does successful QA exist to create process to slow and reject changes, or by accelerating inclusion of fixes improve quality ? Is success having complete, up-to-date and detailed specifications for every feature ? Is success getting everyone to slavishly obey laborious multi-step processes, before every commit ? Alternatively does success come through attracting and empowering developers, who have such fun writing the code that they volunteer their life, allegiance and dreams to improve it ?

OpenOffice Five Times As Popular As Google Docs

CWmike writes "Confirming recent comments by Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, an independent report released Friday found that OpenOffice.org's free office suite is five times more popular than Google Docs. This was according to a survey of 2,400 adult Internet users conducted between May and November. Microsoft's share was 10 times that of OpenOffice.org. Microsoft hopes to cement that lead with its upcoming Office Web, as well as online versions of its Exchange and SharePoint products to be announced on Monday. OpenOffice.org may provide some resistance, however. The latest version, OpenOffice.org 3.0, had a strong first week in October, with more than 3 million downloads. After one month, OpenOffice.org 3.0 had been downloaded 10 million times.

Meeks: Measuring the true success of OpenOffice.org

Crude as they are - the statistics show a picture of slow disengagement by Sun, combined with a spectacular lack of growth in the developer community. In a healthy project we would expect to see a large number of volunteer developers involved, in addition - we would expect to see a large number of peer companies contributing to the common code pool; we do not see this in OpenOffice.org. Indeed, quite the opposite we appear to have the lowest number of active developers on OO.o since records began: 24, this contrasts negatively with Linux's recent low of 160+. Even spun in the most positive way, OO.o is at best stagnating from a development perspective.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 sets download record

OpenOffice.org is the perhaps biggest threat to Microsoft's office suite Office 2007 and when the final version of OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released the developers were rewarded with overloaded servers thanks to the great demand. OpenOffice.org has since then announced that version 3.0 set a new download record with more than 3 million downloads during the first week. Even if it is an impressive figure it is perhaps even more interesting who downloaded the suite.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 released

The OpenOffice.org Community is today announcing the general availability of OpenOffice.org Version 3. Right from the opening screen, OpenOffice.org 3 has a fresh new look, with a new start screen, new splash screen, new icons, and a host of usability improvements. The Writer word processor has a cool new slider control for zooming, allows multi-page display while editing, has powerful new multilingual support, and boasts improved notes capabilities. As well as conventional office documents, Writer can now edit wiki documents for the web. The Calc spreadsheet has been given another increase in capacity - now up to 1024 columns per sheet. It also has a powerful new equation solver, and a great new collaboration feature for multiple users. Draw can now cope with poster-size graphics (up to 3sq metres), and Impress supports multiple monitors

OpenOffice.org For Windows 3.0.0 RC4 Beta

The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce that the public beta release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now available. This beta release is made available to allow a broad user base to test and evaluate the next major version of OpenOffice.org, but is not recommended for production use at this stage.

OpenOffice.org For Windows 3.0.0 RC2 Beta

The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce that the public beta release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is now available. This beta release is made available to allow a broad user base to test and evaluate the next major version of OpenOffice.org, but is not recommended for production use at this stage.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 trips up community's Web site

The release of a new version of the OpenOffice.org productivity suite hit a snag Monday when the community experienced Web site problems that made downloading the suite extremely slow and at times impossible for users. The OpenOffice.org Community released OpenOffice.org 3.0, a new version of the open source productivity suite that competes with Microsoft Office.

OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 Final Available for Download

While Microsoft is cooking Office 14, the successor of the Office 2007 System, the latest version of OpenOffice.org has become available for download. OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 is a free and open source alternative to the Redmond giant's productivity suite, which has lost the advantage of the ISO standard Open Document Format it had over Microsoft Office since the ISO standardization of Open XML. With version 3.0, OpenOffice.org has embraced Microsoft Office, namely the Office 2007 System for Windows platforms and Office 2008 for Mac, in terms of standard support.

OpenOffice.org Achieves Ten Million Downloads

Early on Sunday 9th, the OpenOffice.org Community achieved an historic milestone. when the ten millionth person clicked on the "Download OpenOffice.org" button since the Community announced version 3.0, just four weeks ago. The week also saw the first time the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference has been held outside Europe, with over four hundred people attending the Conference in Beijing, China from Wednesday to Friday.

Hands on: OpenOffice.org 3 in the cloud with Ulteo

Ars took a first look at OpenOffice.org 3 back in May when it was but a wee beta. Now that the open source office suite has been officially released, Ulteo has upgraded its free "OpenOffice.org Online" services to run OO.org 3 in a unique virtualized environment. We took another look at Ulteo to find out how well OO.org 3 performs inside a browser.

Now showing: OpenOffice.org 3.0

Sun Microsystems this week announced the release of the latest version of its open source office suite, OpenOffice.org 3.0 (OO3). At first glance, the suite seems like a more polished OpenOffice.org 2.0. Many of the shortcomings present in older versions of OpenOffice.org have been fixed to some extent. For this review, I tested OO3 in a virtualized Windows XP environment.

First Look: OpenOffice.org 3.0

Sun Microsystems this week announced the release of the latest version of its open source office suite, OpenOffice.org 3.0 (OO3). At first glance, the suite seems like a more polished OpenOffice.org 2.0. Many of the shortcomings present in older versions of OpenOffice.org have been fixed to some extent. For this review, I tested OO3 in a virtualized Windows XP environment.

First Look: OpenOffice.org 3.0

Sun Microsystems this week announced the release of the latest version of its open source office suite, OpenOffice.org 3.0 (OO3). At first glance, the suite seems like a more polished OpenOffice.org 2.0. Many of the shortcomings present in older versions of OpenOffice.org have been fixed to some extent. For this review, I tested OO3 in a virtualized Windows XP environment.

First Look: OpenOffice.org 3.0

Sun Microsystems this week announced the release of the latest version of its open source office suite, OpenOffice.org 3.0 (OO3). At first glance, the suite seems like a more polished OpenOffice.org 2.0. Many of the shortcomings present in older versions of OpenOffice.org have been fixed to some extent. For this review, I tested OO3 in a virtualized Windows XP environment.

First Look: OpenOffice.org 3.0

Sun Microsystems this week announced the release of the latest version of its open source office suite, OpenOffice.org 3.0 (OO3). At first glance, the suite seems like a more polished OpenOffice.org 2.0. Many of the shortcomings present in older versions of OpenOffice.org have been fixed to some extent. For this review, I tested OO3 in a virtualized Windows XP environment.

Ubuntu 8.10 and OpenOffice.org 3.0

Those who have installed the new Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) release have probably noticed that it does not include the new OpenOffice.org 3.0 release. Apparently Canonical decided that the OpenOffice.org release date didn't give them enough time for testing and integration, so they are waiting for the OpenOffice 3.0.1 release, scheduled for the beginning of December. This is a sort of interesting role-reversal with Mandriva, who have typically been the more conservative about including new software in their releases, but they have OpenOffice 3.0.0 in their Mandriva 2009.0 release.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 released

OpenOffice.org is one of the most popular office suits we have today and one of the major reasons for this is of course that OOo is free. The greatest acknowledgment is of course own merits and the fact that the suite is appreciated by the users. OpenOffice.org released version 3.0 yesterday, containing Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, Draw and Math. OpenOffice 3.0 comes with numerous big news since the older v.2.4.1.

Ulteo makes available OpenOffice 3 in a Web browser

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Four layout extensions for OpenOffice.org Writer

OpenOffice.org Writer is as much a desktop publishing program as a word processor. That fact, however, has yet to have much influence on the extensions created for Writer -- perhaps because most users prefer manual formatting to organizing themselves with page styles, templates, and other elements of document design. Still, extensions for layout are starting to appear, as demonstrated by four extensions that help you automate layout: Alba, which manages page orientation; Pagination and Pager, which manage page numbering; and Template Changer, which allows you to change the template, and therefore the entire layout of documents, on the fly. And all but one of these extensions use styles and templates, the way that OpenOffice.org is built to work, which means that they are highly stable.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Released

This would be an article, but the openoffice.org site is down ATM. Have fun refreshing: openoffice.org if this is life changing release for you.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candidate 2 out

The developers behind the open source Office productivity suite OpenOffice.org have now made available the OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candidate 2 edition.

OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candidate 2 out

The developers behind the open source Office productivity suite OpenOffice.org have now made available the OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candidate 2 edition.

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