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OpenOffice.org Team Releases Version 1.0
DenialS writes: "Congratulations to the OpenOffice.org team! Version 1.0 of the open office suite has been released. I'm downloading it now; I've had good luck with the previous stable builds. Release notes haven't been posted yet, so I can't say what the major differences are between 1.0 and the previous stable build, 641d, but I'm looking forware to finding out!"
And for the record is is *not* written in java ok :-)
I sometimes write stuff
bah
But does it run Linux?
It is official; Netcraft confirms: OpenOffice is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered OpenOffice community when IDC confirmed that OpenOffice market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all office suites. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that OpenOffice has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. OpenOffice is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive office suite test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict OpenOffice's future. The hand writing is on the wall: OpenOffice faces a bleak
future. In fact there won't be any future at all for OpenOffice because OpenOffice is dying. Things are looking very bad for OpenOffice. As many of us are already aware, OpenOffice continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. OpenOffice Calc is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenOffice leader Richard Stallman states that there are 7000 users of OpenOffice Calc. How many users of OpenOffice Presentations are there? Let's see. The number of OpenOffice Calc versus OpenOffice Presentations posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 OpenOffice Presentations users. OpenOffice Adabas posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of OpenOffice Presentations posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of OpenOffice Adabas. A recent article put OpenOffice Writer at about 80 percent of the OpenOffice market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 OpenOffice Writer users. This is consistent with the number of OpenOffice Writer Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Star Division, abysmal sales and so on, OpenOffice went out of business and was taken over by Sun who sell another troubled OS. Now Sun is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that OpenOffice has steadily declined in market share. OpenOffice is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If OpenOffice is to survive at all it will be among office suite dilettante dabblers. OpenOffice continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, OpenOffice is dead.
Fact: OpenOffice (and *BSD, and Debian) are dying
you did not widen this page right, asshole. and i am using the greatest web browser ever, IE on win2k.
I'll bet US$100 that Microsoft is bombarding OpenOffice's servers with requests...both to keep them offline AND maybe to learn something in the process :-)
sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
The only exception, I'd say, is the "investment banker", a bastion career of capitalism. It is appropriate, therefore, that his services are not provided for free -- no-one believing in sharing/equality would want them anyway.