OpenOffice 1.1.5 is out so is OpenOffice 2.0 Beta 2

A new stable release of is available for download as well as 2.0 Beta 2. What is OpenOffice? OpenOffice.org is an open source office suite. It is available for many different platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Unix-like systems including Solaris and Linux, and Mac OS X. It is intended to be compatible with, and compete with, Microsoft Office, and can be used at no cost.

OpenOffice.org is based on the code base of StarOffice, an office suite developed by StarDivision acquired by Sun Microsystems in August 1999. The source code of the suite was released as an open source project in July 2000, with the aim of breaking the market dominance of Microsoft Office by providing a lower-cost, high-quality and open alternative. The source code for the application suite was previously available under two different software licenses: the LGPL and SISSL; from v2.0, it is only available under LGPL.

The project and software are informally referred to as “OpenOffice”, but project organizers report that this term is a trademark held by another party, requiring them to adopt “OpenOffice.org” as its formal name, and abbreviated as OOo.

Download: OpenOffice 1.1.5 | OpenOffice 2.0 Beta 2

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