OpenOffice.org: OpenOffice.org 1.0: One Year Later

“All,
A year ago today, 2002-05-01, OpenOffice.org 1.0 was released.
Since then, around 10 million people have downloaded the
application from the volunteer mirror network.

“When we released OpenOffice.org 1.0 we did not expect it to be
quite so popular. Yes, we knew it was great and we certainly
figured the servers would be taxed. But the news media picked up on
the release and ran with the story, and pretty soon seemingly
everyone wanted to download the wonder application that read MS
files, writes MS files, and does it in XML while running on Linux
or Windows or Solaris, too. Our testimonial page reflects just a
portion of the praise we have received since the release of
OpenOffice.org 1.0.

“The thanks for all this is to the community making up
OpenOffice.org. We could not list all who have contributed to the
project and product, for the project has evolved in the last year
to include over 95,000 registered members and hundreds of active
contributors…”

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