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 OpenDo*****ent 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.


About OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice.org is a fully featured open-source productivity suite
available as a free download for major computing platforms in over 45 languages. Data is stored in an XML file format standardized for office do*****ents by the international body OASIS. OpenOffice.org is developed, supported, and promoted by an international community of volunteers with its main sponsor and primary contributor being Sun Microsystems. OpenOffice.org operates from http://www.openoffice.org.