LinuxPR: OpenOffice.org Announces Version 2.0 Public Beta

The OpenOffice.org project is pleased to announce that the first
public beta release of OpenOffice.org 2.0 is now available for
download.

OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta is immediately available in English for
Windows, GNU/Linux and Solaris. Additional platforms and
localisations for Brazilian Portuguese, German, Italian, Japanese,
Korean, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional
Chinese and Turkish, amongst others, will follow shortly.

The release of OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta coincides with the Danish
LinuxForum 2005 and with the Open Source Days in Turkey. Both
events demonstrate the gaining power of open source and especially
the force for change OpenOffice.org 2.0 represents. We are honoured
to be included in these important events.

This beta release is the result of many months work in expanding
the functionality, performance and compatibility of the office
suite. This intense effort has yielded impressive results including
the addition of a new database module, implementation of the OASIS
OpenDocument XML file format and a host of other new features and
capabilities.

The public beta release is made available in order to allow a
broad user base to test and evaluate this new major version of
OpenOffice.org, but is not recommended for production deployment at
this stage.

Beta Availability

The beta version and it’s source code can be downloaded from
http://download.openoffice.org/2.0beta/index.html.

Feature Guide

A more detailed guide to the features can be found at http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/index.html.

Error and Bug Reporting

Users of the OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta release are encouraged to
join the OpenOffice.org project and report any bugs, issues or
errors at http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html.

For ongoing updates regarding beta releases of OpenOffice.org
2.0, please subscribe to the OpenOffice.org Announce mailing list
at http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html#general.

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