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<h1>The Apache OpenOffice Project Announces Apache OpenOffice™ 3.4</h1>
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<strong>Numerous enhancements to leading Open Source multi-platform, multi-lingual office productivity suite with over
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100M users worldwide; <a
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<strong>www.OpenOffice.org —8 May 2012—</strong> The Apache OpenOffice Project today announced the
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availability of Apache OpenOffice™ 3.4, the first release of OpenOffice under the governance of the Apache Software
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Foundation.
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Apache OpenOffice is the original open source office productivity suite, designed for professional and consumer use.
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"With the donation of OpenOffice.org to the ASF, the Foundation, and especially the podling project, was given a daunting
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task: re-energize a community and transform OpenOffice from a codebase of unknown Intellectual Property heritage, to a
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vetted and Apache Licensed software suite," said Jim Jagielski, ASF President and an Apache OpenOffice project mentor. "The
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release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4 shows just how successful the project has been: pulling in developers from over 21
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corporate affiliations, while avoiding undue influence which is the death-knell of true open source communities;
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building a solid and stable codebase, with significant improvement and enhancements over other variants; and, of course,
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creating a healthy, vibrant and diverse user and developer community."
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Apache OpenOffice is the leading open source office productivity suite, with more than 100 million users worldwide in
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home, corporate, government, research, and academic environments, across 15 languages. Apache OpenOffice 3.4 is <a
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href="http://download.openoffice.org">available for download</a> free of charge. OpenOffice 3.4 features:
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word processing, spreadsheets, presentation graphics, databases, drawing, and mathematical editing applications support
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for Windows, Linux (32-bit and 64-bit) and Macintosh operating environments
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native language support for English, Arabic, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Galician, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese,
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Dutch, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese
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improved ODF support, including new ODF 1.2 encryption options and new spreadsheet functions
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enhanced pivot table support in Calc
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enhanced graphics, including line caps, <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/features_for_graphicobjects_and_oleobjects">shear transformations</a>
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and <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/native_svg_support_for_apache">native support</a> for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
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improvements in performance and quality
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The complete list of new features, functions, and improvements is available in the <a
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href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+Release+Notes">Release Notes</a>.
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Apache OpenOffice users also benefit from a broad ecosystem of 3rd party products, including over <a
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href="http://templates.openoffice.org/">2300 templates</a> and over <a
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href="http://extensions.openoffice.org/">800 extensions</a>.
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<h2>Community-Driven Development, The Apache Way</h2>
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The OpenOffice code base was created by Star Division in the 1990's, acquired by Sun Microsystems in
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1999 and later Oracle Corporation in 2010, before being submitted to The Apache Software Foundation mid-2011.
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Today the project is being developed by an all-volunteer group of developers, testers, translators, and other
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contributors under the ASF's meritocratic process informally dubbed "The Apache Way", and is supported by hundreds of
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Open Source software volunteers from around the world.
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"Initially released a decade ago, the first release of OpenOffice 3.4 as an Apache project marks an important new chapter in the life of
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a landmark project," said Stephen O'Grady, Principal Analyst with RedMonk. "Following months of effort, the open source productivity
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suite is now licensed and built with the intent of courting a large population of users, developers and ISVs worldwide."
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As a project in the Apache Incubator, Apache OpenOffice is overseen by a Podling Project Management Committee (PPMC)
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that guides its day-to-day operations, community development, and product releases. Apache OpenOffice source code,
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downloads, documentation, mailing lists, and related resources are available at <a href="http://openoffice.apache.org/">http://openoffice.apache.org/</a>
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For the first official Apache release of OpenOffice, the developer team successfully conformed to the policy defined by
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the Incubator Project Management Committee by identifying, removing and replacing with comparable function those
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libraries with licenses incompatible with Apache Software Foundation license policy.
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<h2>Future Developments</h2>
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Plans for future enhancements by the Project include support for additional native languages, enhanced accessibility,
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usability and performance improvements, and adopting new features and improvements from the upcoming IBM Lotus Symphony
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contribution.
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The Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee invites people to join. There are many different area where contribution is most
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welcome. Check out the <a
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href="http://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html">Get Involved</a> page.
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"Apache OpenOffice is the leading Open Source office productivity suite with more than 15 years of engineering
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investment. We are pleased and excited to offer OpenOffice fully licensed under the Apache License 2. This offering will
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form the foundation of OpenOffice innovation moving forward here at Apache," said Juergen Schmidt, Apache OpenOffice
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Release Manager and veteran core developer. "With the achievement of this major milestone, we have established a diverse
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and vibrant community with sufficient depth and skills to ably steward this important product into the future. We look
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forward to graduating as an Apache Top Level Project soon."
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<h2>For more information</h2>
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More information on the Apache OpenOffice product can be found at our website, <a
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href="http://www.openoffice.org">www.openoffice.org</a>. Information on the Apache OpenOffice project, including
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information on volunteering with the project can be found at our <a
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href="http://openoffice.apache.org/">project website</a>.
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<h2>About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)</h2>
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Apache technologies power more than half the Internet, petabytes of data, teraflops of operations, billions of objects,
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and enhance the lives of countless users and developers. Established in 1999 to shepherd, develop, and incubate Open
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Source innovations "The Apache Way", the ASF oversees 150+ projects led by a volunteer community of over 400 individual
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Members and 3,500 Committers across six continents. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.apache.org/">http://www.apache.org/</a>.
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"Apache", "Apache OpenOffice", "OpenOffice", and "OpenOffice.org" are either trademarks or registered trademarks of
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<h1>Testimonials</h1> <h2>Community</h2>
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"OpenOffice.org was a revolution in its time as an office tool and its role launching the Open Document Format (ODF)
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standard. We are excited to see OpenOffice succeed at Apache which is recognized for its strong reputation to grow
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excellent projects. This milestone is evidence that the 'Apache Way', which respects the meritocracy of people
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contributing their time and talent to benefit their projects, is the key ingredient that makes Apache OpenOffice ideal
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for everyone." <br/>
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— Claudio Filho, member of the Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee and the Brazilian OpenOffice community
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</p>
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"Apache OpenOffice 3.4 is a worthy progression of OpenOffice.org. Many improvements have been completed, which
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originally began for OpenOffice.org, but we have also added a lot of new features, all with usual high quality our users
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have come to expect. Use Apache OpenOffice 3.4 for your personal, business, or education requirements, and reward the
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work of the many volunteers who have made this possible. The Germanophone contributors will continue to support you and
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listen to your questions, requests and suggestions. Together we will continue to shape the future of OpenOffice at
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Apache." <br/>
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— Regina Henschel, member of the Project Management Committee and the OpenOffice Germanophone community.
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"OpenOffice and its large, diverse community now have a new home at Apache. More than 40 volunteers from the Italian
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community helped with translations and quality assurance, to make sure that Apache OpenOffice 3.4 is on par with what
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users have come to expect from the OpenOffice brand. The new license allows for contributions to OpenOffice to be freely
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re-used in other projects, and I am looking forward to cross-project collaboration in the best interest of users." <br/>
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— Andrea Pescetti, member of the Project Management Committee and the Italian OpenOffice community
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<p>
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"Apache OpenOffice 3.4 is a major milestone for our OpenOffice community in Taiwan, because it is the first release
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our Taiwan local community truly participates, both in its translation and its development. I sincerely invite you to
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download and try our work. It shall bring you the best experience ever." <br/>
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— Yang Shih-Ching, member of the Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee, and the OpenOffice Taiwan community
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<h2>Corporate</h2>
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"These are exciting times! SourceForge has been a trusted partner to the open source community for over a decade, and we
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are proud to be working with the Apache Software Foundation. Release 3.4 of Apache OpenOffice achieves a significant
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milestone for the product and community. Our teams are happy to be contributing and look forward to continued progress.
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Congratulations!” <br/>
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— Jeff Drobick, CEO Geeknet Media
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</p>
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"IBM is pleased to contribute to the Apache OpenOffice project licensed under the Apache License v2. This project
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represents a unique opportunity to innovate and create office productivity documents that meet the needs of social
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businesses. We look forward to completing the source code contribution of Symphony to Apache OpenOffice in the near
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future." <br/>
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— Kevin Cavanaugh, Vice President, IBM Collaboration Solutions
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</p>
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<p>
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"PSC Group, LLC included Lotus Symphony and OpenOffice in our customer’s solutions for many years. With the move to
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the Apache Software Foundation, PSC has signed up with a Corporate Contributor License Agreement and many of our
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consultants have decided to become Individual Contributors. We look forward to contributing to the next major version
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proposed as Apache OpenOffice 4." <br/>
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— John Head, Director, Enterprise Collaboration, PSC Group, LLC
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"We are working on the Apache OpenOffice project because our goal is to consistently bring business value to users. The
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project will ultimately drive increased productivity as we work towards extending report generation and document
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collaboration from within SugarCRM. When users are more productive, they can focus on the most important task at hand
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which is to deliver a stellar customer experience." <br/>
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— Clint Oram, chief technology officer and co-founder of SugarCRM
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