Its nice to know that if you waste time and money crippling your computers and organisations with office software you can do it on the cheap.

I use OpenOffice.org on GNU/Linux terminal servers so this should give an even greater improvement on AMD64 machines. Recently, the blogosphere has held shouts that OpenOffice.org is stagnant. I think this release just shows it is mature. Do we really need more features or do we need fewer bugs and better performance? I will never forget the day 1.0 was released. I had to hunt the world to find a server and the code was buggy but I had it installed all over the building in a few hours. Now, I have two or three niggling problems in the whole of 2.4 and it took me seconds to find a decent mirror for 3. I expect 3.0 will be superb. Congratulations to all who contributed. Thanks.

'Grab a copy and have at thee...'. You what? Obscure reference or bizarre typo?

New entry for Oxymoron of the day?

wow. I can now Read, MODIFY and resave PDF's on all of the OOo platforms (including Linux), with a really nice "office tool" which where I already know the commands. I don't need to spend $$$$ on Acrobat, or $$ on Windoze and a costly "security" add-on. I can my regular Office Suite to work on my PDF's, which are, after all *documents*. I feel this to have been an enormous enhancement.