Let There Be Light: Promoting OpenOffice.org with Sun
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The OpenDocument Format (ODF) just keeps on getting stronger.  It is now an official ISO standard; there are numerous applications that support it, with varying degrees of fidelity, including Google's online word processor and spreadsheet;  there's an official Microsoft-funded plug-in for Microsoft Office that allows it to open and save ODF files, and a program that converts between ODF and the Chinese UOF XML office format; and the ODF community has largely sorted out issues of accessibility that threatened to de-rail its adoption by Massachusetts.
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Big Blue's Open Client Offering spans Windows, Mac and Linux by combining Notes, Sametime, OpenOffice and Eclipse software.
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The OpenOffice.org project has turned four years old, celebrating its birthday on the anniversary of Sun's donation of StarOffice to the open source community. With 31 million downloads and counting, the free office suite has helped push for mainstream acceptance of open source software by offering an alternative to Microsoft's pricey Office System. OpenOffice.org 2.0 is set for release next spring, complete with an open equivalent to Microsoft Access.
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Separate from Microsoft's efforts to create a translator that supports Office 2007's Open XML formats and OpenDocument, Sun has released the final 1.0 version of its own ODF plug-in for Office. However, Office 2007 is not yet supported due to what Sun calls a bug in Microsoft's newest suite.
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0. Intro 1. New SF.net Mirror 2. August Project of the month: Bochs 3. September Project of the month: Azureus 4. Improved Site Documentation 5. SourceForge.net Subscriptions - Free T-shirt 6. Stats and Top Projects   Dear SourceForge.net User,  Welcome to the September sitewide email. September is typically our busiest month for new traffic on SF.net.  Students are arriving at college and getting on high speed connections.  Open Source developers and consumers of Open Source software are returning from their summer vacations.  If you are back from vacation, it's good to have you back.  If you are new to the site, welcome!  In this sitewide email, I want to update you on three notable things that have occurred regarding our site and our organization since July.  First, our parent company has changed its name.   OSDN (Open Source Development Network) is now OSTG (The Open Source Technology Group). Why the name change?   We realized that our network of sites (which include SourceForge.net, Slashdot.org, Linux.com, Freshmeat, NewsForge.net etc)  caters not only to developers but also to IT professionals.   Our old name didn't reflect this diverse audience. We have changed our name to better reflect who we are.  OSTG currently boasts over 16 million unique individuals (both developers and IT professionals) and over 238 million pageviews per month.  http://www.ostg.com/  Second, we recently received our single largest donation to SourceForge.net.  The Omidyar Network, founded by Pierre Omidyar (founder of EBay) and his wife Pam, gave $400,000 to SourceForge.net. The money is being used to update the User Interface on SF.net and the tools on the site (such as the File Release System, forums and Tracker), as well as improved functionality and statistics on the site.  The SF.net team would like to greatly thank the Omidyar Network for their very generous support.   You can read the press release here: http://www.vasoftware.com/news/press.php/2004/1431.html Omdiyar Network's website can be viewed here: http://www.omidyar.net/  Finally, I want to tell you about a very easy way to get an Apple iPod mini.  IBM is giving away 170 iPods to SF.net project admins.  This is not a drawing.  If your project meets a certain criteria, and you are willing to be a judge of your own project (which I know sounds a bit odd), you receive an iPod.   Normally I don't pitch offers in sitewide emails, but this one is unique enough that I wanted to bring it to your attention.   The only catch is the qualifications.  Your project has to be a 'server-based', not written in a scripting language (or Java) and not already ported to LinuxPPC.   If your project passes the criteria, I highly encourage you to visit the signup page.  If more than 170 projects signup who qualify, IBM will take the top 170 projects based on activity ranking. Deadline is Friday Sept 24th, 2004. http://sourceforge.net/ppc_contest.php  Thank you for using and supporting SourceForge.net.  If you have any questions or issues with SourceForge.net, please feel free to email me directly at pat@sf.net.  Thank you.  Happy coding.  Pat-  Patrick McGovern Director, SourceForge.net email: pat@sf.net   New Mirror --------------------------------------------------------- SF.net serves approximately one million Open Source downloads a day to a worldwide audience.   The combined bandwidth of these downloads is a sustained rate of over one gigibit per second (Gbps). SF.net couldn't provide this throughput without the support of our download partners, who provide hardware and bandwidth to support the site and the Open Source community.  Today, the SF.net team would like to a announce a new partner in Germany: MESH-Solutions.  MESH-Solutions provides IP bandwidth and colocation services at premiere Level3 gateways all over the world. Unlike traditional carriers, MESH-Solutions offers a wide range of additional services, including reboot services, hardware maintenance, remote hands and various consulting services. MESH-Solutions believes in Open Source for multiple reasons: its fast, its reliable and its just "very seckzy".  http://www.mesh-solutions.com/sf/  The SF.net team would like to thank MESH-Solutions for their support and bandwidth.  (A special thank you to Peter Lieven for his help.)   August Project of the Month (POTM): Bochs --------------------------------------------------------- Emulating a CPU in software is quite a trick. A programmer has to fool the operating system, and the software running on top of the operating system, into believing that it is on genuine hardware. This requires meticulously emulating every single instruction and mode that the CPU has to offer, which is immensely complex. SourceForge.net's August 2004 project of the month is Bochs, a x86 emulator (386, 486, Pentium and Pentium Pro). Its emulation is robust enough to allow Linux, Windows 95, and Windows NT to run on top of it. The emulator runs under many hardware platforms and operating systems, including Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, so if you want to run Windows under OS X, you can do it! Bochs, pronounced 'box', is one of the top 100 projects on SourceForge.net boasting over a million downloads since its inception on SF.net. The SF.net team is proud to make Bochs, August 2004, project of the month.  Project of the month: http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2004-08.php Home Page: http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ Project Page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/   September Project of the Month (POTM): Azureus --------------------------------------------------------- SourceForge.net's September 2004 project of the month is Azureus, a powerful Java-based BitTorrent client.  Downloading a file, whether it's a large ISO (CD images), promotional MP3 from your favorite local band, Open Source application, or music video, is one of the most common uses of the Internet. Until recently, download servers that served these files were centralized. If the server was overloaded, offline, or 'Slashdotted', you were out of luck. BitTorrent, another SourceForge.net-hosted project, changed this by providing a way to download files in a decentralized way by leveraging, in a transparent fashion, hundreds of end-user computers. Using this method, the files are almost always available and the transfer speed is generally faster than a centralized solution, particularly with larger files. This project is immensely popular on SF.net. Besides being in our top 5 most active projects (out of 80,000+) it enjoys on average 75,000 downloads a day (Wow!).  Azureus runs under Windows, Linux, OS X, among others and is licensed under the GPL. The SourceForge.net team is proud to make Azureus Project of the Month for Sepember.  Project of the month: http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2004-09.php Home Page: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/ Project Page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus/   SF.net Documentation Improvements --------------------------------------------------------- SourceForge.net staff have started work to significantly improve the Site Documentation of SourceForge.net.  This effort includes new content, rewrites of existing content, and layout improvements.  Our new Site Docs may be seen at: https://sourceforge.net/docs/  Included within our initial roll-out of new documentation is a guide to using the Tracker system, used by most SourceForge.net projects for tracking support issues, bug reports and feature requests.  This guide provides both step-by-step instructions for using the Tracker system, as well as extensive detail on best practices that will be useful for new projects and long-term Tracker users alike.  This guide may be seen at: https://sourceforge.net/docs/E03/  The SourceForge.net team welcomes your feedback regarding our new documentation.  Details on how to provide feedback may be found at: https://sourceforge.net/docs/A00/  As part of our ongoing effort to improve the usability of the site, new documentation will be released each month.  Details of new document releases may be found on our Enhancements page, as seen at: https://sourceforge.net/docs/A03/  We hope that our new documentation offering will help everyone to make better use of the resources we provide and significantly improve site usability.  Thank you,  Jacob Moorman Quality of Service Manager, SourceForge.net   SourceForge.net Subscriptions - Free T-shirt -------------------------------------------- SF.net subscribers receive a full array of exciting features, including priority technical support. We have extended our offer for a free T-shirt (from ThinkGeek.com) when you sign up for an annual SourceForge.net subscription.   Sign up today for a subscription and help support SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/subscription.php   Stats and Top Projects. --------------------------------------------- Number of Projects: 87,673 Number of Registered Users: 920,068  Daily Stats for Sept 17th, 2004  SF.net : 2,233,365 pages served SF.net project web space : 7,193,198 pages served Total Pages: 9,426,563  Open Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 1,014,152 Outgoing Mailing list emails: 1,233,125  ------------------------------------------------ Top 25 Projects:  1. Gaim https://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as many unique features.  2. Azureus - BitTorrent Client https://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus Azureus is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform Java-based BitTorrent client.  3. eGroupWare: Enterprise Collaboration https://sourceforge.net/projects/egroupware eGroupWare is a multi-user, web-based groupware suite developed on a custom set of PHP-based APIs.Currently available modules include: email, address book, calendar, infolog (notes, to-do's, phone calls), content management, forum, bookmarks, wiki.....  4. phpMyAdmin https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.  5. FCKeditor https://sourceforge.net/projects/fckeditor This HTML editor (DHTML editor), for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP and JavaScript brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of known desktop editors like Word. It works with Mozilla, Netscape and IE.  6. OpenWFE https://sourceforge.net/projects/openwfe OpenWFE is an open source java workflow engine.It is a complete Business Process Management suite, with 4 components : an engine, a work list, a web client and a reactor (host for automatic agents).It can also be used behind the scene.  7. WinMerge https://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge A visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. Useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.  8. SugarCRM https://sourceforge.net/projects/sugarcrm Sugar.Sales 1.5 available now!A CRM suite including sales, marketing and customer service. Sugar.Marketing and Sugar.Service coming soon. Easy to use, easy to install.Built on PHP and MySQL.See home page for a demo and more.  9. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution https://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality.  10. AMSN https://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn AMSN (Alvaro\\\\'s Messenger) is a MSN messenger clone for linux/unix/windows/mac. It features multi-language support, file transfers, new graphical interface, emoticons, multiple profiles support, dock icon, sound events, email notification, URL processing.  11. PDFCreator https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program.Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application.  12. MegaMek https://sourceforge.net/projects/megamek MegaMek is a networked Java clone of BattleTech, a turn-based sci-fi boardgame for 2+ players.Fight using giant robots, tanks, and/or infantry on a hex-based map.  13. FileZilla https://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of features.FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server.  14. Dev-C++ https://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set.  15. WebCalendar https://sourceforge.net/projects/webcalendar WebCalendar is a PHP application used to maintain a calendar for a single user or an intranet group of users.It can also be configured as an event calendar.  16. AWStats https://sourceforge.net/projects/awstats AWStats is a free powerful and featureful server logfile analyzer that shows you all your Web/Mail/FTP statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, rush hours, os, browsers, search engines, keywords, robots visits, broken links and more...  17. Biet-O-Matic (Bid-O-Matic) https://sourceforge.net/projects/bom Yet another sniper tool :-)BOM ist a tool to watch and bid on auctions.Many features like mail control, autoconnect/disconnect, integrated ODBC- client, Multi-language-support etcfrebayhoodkeywords  18. Firewall Builder https://sourceforge.net/projects/fwbuilder Object-oriented GUI and set of compilers for various firewall platforms. Currently implemented compilers for iptables, ipfilter, OpenBSD pf, ipfw and Cisco PIX  19. HSQL Database Engine https://sourceforge.net/projects/hsqldb HSQLDB is a relational database engine written in Java, with a JDBC driver, supporting a subset of ANSI-92 SQL.It offers a small (about 100k), fast database engine which offers both in memory and disk based tables.This product includes Hypersonic SQL  20. KeePass Password Safe https://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass KeePass is a free, open-source, light-weight and easy-to-use password safe for Windows. You can store your passwords in a highly-encrypted database locked with one master key or key-disk.  21. POPFile - Automatic Email Classification https://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, POP3, SMTP, NNTP proxies and IMAP filter and a web interface.It runs on most platforms and with most email clients.  22. JasperReports https://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperreports Free Java reporting library. XML report templates are used to generate ready to print documents using data from customizable data sources, including JDBC. The output can be delivered to the screen, printer, or stored in PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV and XML format  23. JBoss.org https://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss The JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java  24. ABC [Yet Another Bittorrent Client] https://sourceforge.net/projects/pingpong-abc ABC is an improved client for the Bittorrent which supports queueing system with priority, global and local preference setting for downloading torrent, 3 upload options to do with completed file, with ABC_TWEAK you can adjust status display by yourself.  25. ScummVM https://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for several point-and-click adventure engines. 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Open source is changing the game by making software free.  About time.
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Sun has released the final version of its Open Document Format (ODF) plug-in for Microsoft Office, designed to allow the ODF standard to better compete with Microsoft&#39;s dominant Office formats.
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Now for some real Apache code Column As I write this, I'm on the Eurostar train, just returning from O'Reilly's OSCon (Open Source Conference) in Brussels. Some fascinating insights there; and even my own talk generated some interesting discussion. Some of the delegates, including O'Reilly himself, are promoting opensource ideas going beyond software and into society more generally. I've touched on that in this very column before now, but a related argument that's new to me is that the open/closed debate in software could become largely sidelined, as the industry focuses on software as a service (such as Google's offerings) more than as a product.â¦
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HP is giving away a lot of value related to open source adoption.  Here's why this is a good strategy.
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(InfoWorld) - The Eclipse Foundationâs Eclipse World 2006 made its way to Cambridge, Mass., in early September, with foundation executives touting the success of the open source application development project in attracting developer interest and support from big-name players such as IBM. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill caught up with The foundationâs Executive Director Mike Milinkovich to talk about the organizationâs accomplishments, competition with Microsoft and Sun, respecting Java and the road ahead. InfoWorld: How much money would you estimate is being generated by Eclipse-based software, or is the main attraction to Eclipse still that itâs all free? Mike Milinkovich: I wish we actually had good numbers on trying to estimate the size of the Eclipse ecosystem. Iâm quite confident that itâs in the billion-dollar range and probably more, but we just donât have the hard numbers. But what you said about the attraction to Eclipse being free -- the economics of the Eclipse model is a little bit different than that, because the Eclipse community as a whole is almost uniquely focused on enabling a commercially profitable ecosystem around the free platform. So yes, we do provide open source tools and frameworks from Eclipse, and those are provided for free. But we definitely are motivated across the Eclipse ecosystem to see people and companies make money from the Eclipse platform. IW: I just met with a company thatâs basing its technology on Eclipse, and it has no salespeople. Do you see that as a trend where software companies, particularly open source software companies, donât have salespeople because they donât see the need? MM: Historically enterprise software has been sold through [a] direct salesforce channel. I do believe over time, weâre starting to see success in open source software products in areas which have been traditionally the realm of the direct sales force. Iâm thinking of things like Sugar CRM and CompiereÂ  [ERP] and open source products like this. Those environments or those products have very, very low cost of sales, so as customers get more used to that, I think that over time, yeah, there are going to be fewer and fewer software salesmen. IW: Is anything going on as far as Sun joining Eclipse or merging NetBeans and Eclipse? MM: Nope, absolutely not. Theyâve made it pretty clear that theyâre not really interested in doing anything other than continuing to push their NetBean strategy. IW: What do you think of their being two kind of rival camps? Is it good for competition? MM: Well weâre certainly not shy of competition, and frankly weâre winning. IW: Sun seemsÂ  to say differently. MM: Oh, good for them. Iâve got the numbers, they donât. IW: Who do you see as your main rival, NetBeans or Windows .Net? MM: We clearly and have always felt that Eclipse is about enabling competition with Microsoft. IW: And how have you fared there? MM: Actually, we started five years ago, and I would say that starting from zero the growth of Eclipse over the past five years has been absolutely phenomenal. IW: Is Eclipse de-emphasizing Java and refocusing on some of the other languages that we talked about? Some of the scripting languages as well as .Net? MM: I wouldnât say weâre de-emphasizing Java. As Eclipse is growing and thereâs more projects joining the folds, thereâs more resources to take on more languages and more platforms. Now almost every Eclipse project writes its code in Java. So weâre clearly heavy users of Java. But in terms of Java being the only platform or language that we support within Eclipse, thatâs never been the vision for Eclipse. Itâs always been about supporting as many languages and as many platforms as we can find people willing to work on projects for. IW: Where is Eclipse headed and what new technologies are on the horizon? MM: A couple of things come to mind. First is continued growth and adoption around our Rich Client Platform (RCP). More support for multiple languages. Within Eclipse, in the next quarter weâre planning on having the first release from the PHP IDE project, which we think is really exciting. Because PHP is a really important language both for enterprise development, but Web development in general, and having Eclipse tooling available for PHP is something that weâre pretty excited about.
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Sun Microsystems is backing European Union efforts to standardize office document formats, including a proposal that would enable people to switch easily between Microsoft-based documents and those created with open-source software.
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Sun Microsystems has decided to offer support for the OpenOffice.org suite, charging $20 per user per year to companies that distribute the open-source software.
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Sun Microsystems anounced Wednesday that it is preparing to release a plug-in for its StarOffice 8 productivity suite that will provide two-way conversion between the OpenDocument format and Microsoft Office 2003.
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Russ asks: Where's the OpenSocial container API? I love Russ because he cuts through all the BS and gets right to the core, most basic question, and he doesn't care who he pisses off. That's my kind of developer. You can't lie to the compiler, when the bits hit the road, you gotta know what garbage goes in and what garbage comes out.  (Ahh programmer's humor!) In other words, suppose I wanted to compete with Google, MySpace, Plaxo and LinkedIn, well, where's the spec that shows me how to do that? Well, of course I don't know, they aren't communicating with riffraff like me, but I have some experience with this kind of stuff, so I can hazard a guess. If they publish a spec,all kinds of projects will likely get started to enable the API in (just for the sake of argument): Drupal, WordPress, Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, Scripting News (why not add widgets to a random blog), CNN, The New York Times, well you get the idea. There might be lots of implementations very quickly. And that would be it for changes. It would be frozen de facto, they'd have to live with what they have, which given how quickly it was thrown together, probably isn't very good. Not the kind of stuff you'd like to support for the next decade or two. Or maybe they would break everyone, something guaranteed to make them a lot of enemies, much the way Microsoft did, and they were good at migration of APIs.  Google is good at doing AJAXy web UIs, they make users happy, but they're not very good at APIs. This one is a loser, for sure. That's the answer to Russ's question. It's probably not malice that keeps them from releasing details to everyone outside their club, it's pragmatism. They have to try to hold on to it to keep it from becoming even more of a mess than it already is. Just my opinion, for what it's worth. I've been wrong many times before.
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Interested in trying out the free OpenOffice.org 2.0 office suite without having to install it on your computer?Now's your chance.That option became possible Tuesday when OpenOffice.org and online application vendor Ulteo launched a beta project that hosts OpenOffice.org 2.0 on Ulteo's Online Desktop infrastructure, giving users online access to the applications and up to 1GB of related data storage.In an announcement, the two groups said the project will be open to 15,000 beta users who will be able to access the applications using a Web browser on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X.Beta users will also have access to the project's instant collaboration features, which will allow participants to invite other users to join them online in working on a document together in real time. Users can send invitations to others via e-mail, allowing access to documents in either read-only or full edit mode through a clickable link in the message."Now everyone can use OpenOffice.org from any connected PC, anytime, anywhere," Florian Effenberger, marketing project co-lead of OpenOffice.org, said in a statement. "You even can work together on documents online and collaborate with others. This especially is an interesting option for trainers and workgroups.""Ulteo is very proud to deliver OpenOffice.org to the community in a new, useful and exciting way: online and designed for collaboration," Thierry Koehrlen, CEO of Ulteo, said in a statement. "We expect that it will ... spread OpenOffice.org to even more users now that it is simpler than ever to try and? use it in a couple of clicks."Users can register for the beta program at Ulteo's Web site.
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A discussion of how to use frame styles in OOo Writer.
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(InfoWorld) - After years of holding out, IBM has joined the OpenOffice.org open-source community and will contribute code to the office suite that serves as an alternative to Microsoft's Office software. IBM has been using code from the project in its development of productivity applications it included in Lotus 8, the latest version of its collaboration suite, but until now had not been an official member of the community, said Doug Heintzman, director of strategy for the Lotus division at IBM. The company now will contribute its own code to the project and be more visible about its work to integrate OpenOffice.org into Lotus, he said. Heintzman acknowledged that theÂ International Organization for Standardization's (ISO's) recent vote to reject Microsoft's Open XML file format as a technology standardÂ was one reason IBM decided to join the effort. OpenOffice.org uses ODF (Open Document Format), a rival file format to Open XML that is already an ISO technology standard. IBM is one of the companies pushing for the use of ODF in companies and government organizations that are creating mandates to only use technology based on open standards in their IT architectures. "They are certainly related," he said of the ISO vote and IBM's decision to join OpenOffice.org. "We think that it's now time to make sure there is a public code base that implements this spec so we can attract a critical mass to build these new value propositions." Sun founded OpenOffice.org and offers its own commercial implementation of the suite, called StarOffice. The company, a long-time IBM competitor in the hardware and software markets, also has been the primary contributor to the code, one of the reasons IBM balked for so long before joining the group. "[The community] has had some challenges in recruiting an awful lot of big names to support the activity, but [now] we think there are some that can provide an example to us all to provide a vibrant place to add value," Heintzman said. "We hope that our voice at the table will help us evolve the community." Intellectual-property attorney and well-known ODF supporter Andrew Updegrove noted that the ISO's decision andÂ recent interest in StarOffice by GoogleÂ may have been enough to inspire IBM to set aside any competitive differences with Sun and work with them to promote OpenOffice.org as an alternative to Microsoft Office. Momentum from the ISO's rejection of Open XML is a prime opportunity for OpenOffice.org to become a real alternative to Office, he said. "Most likely, the setback for [Open XML] ... and Google's announcement a month ago that it would include StarOffice 8 in its free Google Pack download figure into IBM's decision," Updegrove wrote in an e-mail to the mailing list for his Standards Blog. "Those events help provide the type of public momentum that ... offer the prospect for the type of greater rewards that help displace other considerations and historical impediments. Whatever the reasons may have been that have kept Sun and IBM from working together to support OpenOffice over the past four years more fully, the reality is that a chance to break an industry monopoly that generates $15 billion in revenues a year comes only once in a generation -- when it comes at all." In a press statement, Sun welcomed IBM's addition to the group, which claims it has had 100 million downloads of its software since it launched in 2000.