OpenOffice.org History and Milestones 1999 - 2005
2004-10
| 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | |
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| 1999-04 | Sun Microsystems, Inc., buys StarDivision |
| 2000 | |
| 2000-07-19 | OpenOffice.org announced; StarOffice 5.2 code open-sourced under LGPL/SISSL |
| 2000-10-13 | OpenOffice.org goes live, with the source available for download |
| 2000-11-24 | First port complete: PPC Linux |
| 2000-12 | XML file-format specification |
| 2001 | |
| 2001-02 | Integration of the new, psprint-based printing system |
| 2001-04 | Whiteboard (now Incubator) projects grow; these are community-initiated development projects |
| 2001-04 | Source code to Mac OS X port released |
| 2001-04 | First Lang (now Native-Lang) project - Francophone |
| 2001-04 | Thesaurus announced (en_US ) |
| 2001-05 | Spell Checking integrated (MySpell) |
| 2001-06 | ODK released |
| 2001-07 | First community localization - Finnish |
| 2001-07 | Marketing (Whiteboard) project created |
| 2001-09 | Help system and content integrated |
| 2001-10 | Build 638c is released (638c was a milestone release) |
| 2001-10 | One Million Downloads! |
| 2001-13 | First anniversary |
| 2002 | |
| 2002-04 | 10,000 members registered; 4.5 Million downloads |
| 2002-05 | OpenOffice.org 1.0 announced |
| 2002-05 | 6 Million downloads, 2,000 messages posted per week |
| 2002-05-07 | Mac OS X (developer) build released, adding to the list that includes all other flavors of Unix, such as FreeBSD |
| 2002-06-30 | OpenOffice.org grows to 55,000, adding five thousand new members per week |
| 2002-07 | Native Lang projects: Deutsch, Español, Italiano, Nederlands, Português do Brasil |
| 2002-08 | Community-sponsored development projects include: Documentation, QA, WP, Groupware, Lingucomponent |
| 2002-08 | Best Office Productivity Award (Linux Journal) |
| 2002-08 | Evolutionary Enterprise Award (Linux World Expo) (picture coming soon) |
| 2000-09 | SDK released, superseding the ODK |
| 2002-09 | XML Journal Finalist Award |
| 2002-10 | New developer builds and ports: 643, Mac OS X11 Public Beta |
| 2002-10-13 | Facts:
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| 2003 | |
| 2003-02 | OpenOffice.org Software Development Kit released (Beta; now final) |
| 2003-03 | OpenOffice.org Conference |
| 2003-04 | OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC1 released |
| 2003-07 | OpenOffice.org Mac OS X (X11) port finalized (GM) |
| 2003-08 | Numerous new Native-Lang and Incubator projects |
| 2003-09 | The OpenOffice.org Community Council Formed |
| 2003-09 | OpenOffice.org 1.1 released |
| 2003-10 | Awards: Numerous user and editor awards |
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| 2005 | |
| 2005-03 | OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta released |
