[ooo-announce] OPENOFFICE.ORG ANNOUNCES VERSION 1.1.5

[Paweł Gołaszewski]

OPENOFFICE.ORG ANNOUNCES VERSION 1.1.5

14 September, 2005 - 16H00 UTC

OpenOffice.org is proud to announce the immediate availability of the
new 1.1.5 version of the award-winning open source office suite.

This new version is initially available on the Windows
(98/ME/NT/2000/XP), GNU/Linux (X86 and PowerPC) and Solaris (SPARC and
X86) platforms. 

In addition to English, builds for Czech, Danish, French, German,
Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Turkish
are immediately available with other localisations following shortly.

OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 introduces import support for documents,
spreadsheets and presentations in OpenDocument format. The OpenDocument
format is an XML based international office document standard approved
by OASIS, the Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards. XML based, the OpenDocument format enables the free exchange
of data between compliant software packages. 

OASIS is the industry body for e-business standards and is sponsored by
the leading names in IT such as Computer Associates, EDS, IBM,
Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, PeopleSoft and Sun Microsystems. The OASIS
OpenDocument Technical Committee, which is responsible for the
development and maintenance of the OpenDocument standard, currently
comprises Adobe, IBM, Sun Microsystems and numerous other interested
parties. The technical committee is open for membership to anyone
interested in participating.

The OASIS OpenDocument standard has also been specifically endorsed by a
number of organisations including the European Commission; Singapore's
Ministry of Defense; France's Ministry of Finance and Ministry of
Economy, Finance and Industry; Brazil's Ministry of Health; the City of
Munich; the Bristol City Council; the City of Vienna; IBM; Israel's
Ministry of Finance; Novell; Red Hat as well as Sun Microsystems.

The suite, according to the terms of its open source licenses (LGPL &
SISSL), is free for all to use, improve, modify, and to redistribute to
anyone.


OpenOffice.org Availability

The suite and its source code can be downloaded from
http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.5/index.html or obtained from one of
the CD-ROM distributors listed at
http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/.


OpenOffice.org Support Services

Free end user support for OpenOffice.org is provided by the community
through mailing lists, forums and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels.
Commercial support is also provided by Sun Microsystems and other
organisations. For more information on support services, please visit
http://support.openoffice.org/.


About OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is a fully featured open-source productivity suite
available as a free download for major computing platforms in over 45
languages. Data is stored in an XML file format standardized for office
documents by the international body OASIS. OpenOffice.org is developed,
supported, and promoted by an international community of volunteers with
its main sponsor and primary contributor being Sun Microsystems.
OpenOffice.org operates from <http://www.openoffice.org>. 


OpenOffice.org Conference - 2005

The release of OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta 2 comes one month before the
annual OpenOffice.org Conference, to be held in Koper - Capodistria,
Slovenia, from 28 to 30 September.  The conference, organised by the
Slovenian and Italian OpenOffice.org project teams, follows the
successes of the last two years,  OOoCon 2003 in Hamburg and OOoCon 2004
in Berlin,  and is intended to bring together all people who are
interested in the development, deployment and use of  the software
suite. For further information regarding the conference, please visit
http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/index.html. 


Further Information

For release notes regarding version 1.1.5, please visit
http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.5/release_notes_1.1.5.html.

For further details on the features of OpenOffice.org, please visit
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/1.1/index.html.

For previous press release information, please visit
http://www.openoffice.org/press/1.1/index.html.

For details regarding the 2005 OpenOffice.org Conference, please see
http://marketing.openoffice.org/conference/.

For additional details regarding the OASIS OpenDocument format, a
datasheet can be downloaded from
http://www.oasis-open.org/who/data_sheets/OASIS-opendocument-datasht-a4-05-06-20.pdf


GLOBAL CONTACTS

Jacqueline McNally (UTC +08h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Lead

jacqueline w openoffice.org
+61 (8) 9474-3021

John McCreesh (UTC +01h00)
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Co-Lead

jpmcc w openoffice.org
+44 (0)131 523 9218

Louis Suarez-Potts
OpenOffice.org Community Manager
louis w openoffice.org
+1 (416) 625 3843

(C) 2005 OpenOffice.org



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