Press coverage on OpenOffice.org

For news report on major deployment of OpenOffice.org inside governments, universities and other large instituitions and organizations, please see Major OpenOffice.org Deployments.

2006

• How to get reports on OpenOffice 2.0 Base, by Solveig Haugland — Part I and Part II, searchOpenSource.com
• OpenOffice.org 2.0 Impress: the Confusing Duckling Becomes a User-Friendly Swan, by Solveig L. Haugland — TUX, Issue number 10: February 2006
• OpenOffice.org Base, by Kevin Shockey — TUX, Issue number 10: February 2006
• OpenOffice 2.0 - The latest OpenOffice comes with new file formats and many new features, by Michael Bona — Linux Magazine, Issue 63: February 2006

2005

• "Is there life without Microsoft Office?" by Allison Linn — MSNBC.com
• OpenOffice.org 2.0 Review, by Jem Matzan — The Jem Report

• MadPenguin interview series over the launch of OpenOffice.org 2.0, by Christian Einfeldt
  • Part 1: Sun Microsystems' Florian Reuter: will the real XML please stand up!
  • Part 2: Gary Edwards: OpenOffice.org 2.0 leaping over legacy lockdown with clean XML
  • Part 3: OpenOffice.org 2.0: An Office Suite With No Horizons

• Improving OpenOffice.org: articles by Jono Bacon at Oreilly Network
  • Opening the potential of OpenOffice.org
  • Mozillarization of OpenOffice.org
  • All hail the speed demons — covering hackers' effort on improving OOo performance

• An introduction to OpenOffice.org Basic, by Mark Alexander Bain — Newsforge.com
• Writing a Program to Control OpenOffice.org, by Franco Pingiori — Part 1 and Part 2, Linux Journal
• Creating an invoicing system with OpenOffice.org, by Dmitri Popov — Newsforge.com

2004

• Review: Using OpenOffice.org, by Peter H. Salus — Unix Review
• Text Formatting with OpenOffice.org Writer, by Christian Paratschek — OSNews.com

Other sources for news on OpenOffice.org

Some suggestions

In order to create a one-stop central location for finding news, articles and reviews on OpenOffice.org, I recommend that links to relevant articles on OpenOffice.org from the following news source (and possibly other source) to be archived and re-posted on this Wiki page. What do you think? Feel free to speak up your mind in the Talk page. Your input is truly appreciated.--Wily Yuen Feb 14, 2006

• Newsforge: Office Software newsfeed
• LinuxJournal: OOo Off the Wall column (also listed in OOoAuthors) by Bruce Byfield
• OpenOffice.org Blog by Solveig Haugland: especially author's articles in TechTarget.com
• Product Reviews and Case Studies section from the official page
• OOoForum.org: OpenOffice.org in the news, with many members contributing news links