On the release date of OpenOffice.org 2.0
One of the questions I get asked -
very - frequently is: When is OpenOffice.org 2.0 going to be
released? The only answer I can give is: Honestly, I don't know.
OOo releases follow the StarOffice release schedule, until now SUN
has been saying they are going to release StarOffice 8 in mid-July,
which should have resulted in OOo 2.0 some weeks later. But that's
a thing of the past now, today SUN
announced at the
LinuxTag (article in german only, sorry) that they have pushed
back the release date for StarOffice 8 to the "end of summer". So,
until there are major changes to the release process this
translates into: No OOo 2.0 for quite some time.
As unfortunate as this might be for the ones who can't wait for the
final release, on the positive side of things - which I tend to
prefer - it also should result in more features and hopefully less
bugs, as development is going ahead at full speed at the
moment.