Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Oct 2005 11:12 UTC, submitted by Witek Wasilewski
OpenOffice.org 2.0 has been silently released to servers. It can be found here.
OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. Update: Here's an interview with OOo's community manager, Louis Suarez-Potts. 
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Now work must be done to bring the GUI up to Office 12 standards. A small release, just to work on the GUI and fix some of the worst 2.0 bugs could be advantageous in shortening the development cycle.
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People are not exactly throwing themselves after new versions of MS-Office. The reason people have to upgrade is that their old version is end of lifed by Microsoft so that they can't get any support from Microsoft anymore.
As Office 12 becomes the new product to upgrade to, it will be sufficiently different to require lots of training. Then switching to the much more familiar GUI of OpenOffice would be a good choice as that would reduce your training costs.
Not looking like Office 12 and looking more like Microsoft office always have looked like could be a good thing.