OEONE CORPORATION JOINS LEADING LINUX FORCES IN THE OPENOFFICE.ORG GROUPWARE
22 August 2002 - Axentra

"Robust and readily available Linux applications are rapidly coming to maturity and we're starting to see them make their mark with mainstream users," said Eid EID, President & CEO of OEone Corporation. "The open-source community was founded on the premise of sharing source code and now we're seeing the collaboration among key Linux stakeholders as a natural and rewarding next step."

OEone's participation in the OpenOffice.org Groupware project will be an example of what can result when the open-source community works jointly on open-source projects like the Mozilla project and the OpenOffice.org project. OEone contributed the major portion of the Mozilla Calendar. The OpenOffice.org groupware project has also contributed to the Mozilla Calendar. The next logical step is to integrate calendar data into OpenOffice.org.

Gary Frederick, Project Lead for the OpenOffice.org Groupware project, said, "OEone knows how to add applications into Mozilla. Their integration of Abiword is an example of how they successfully accomplished the blending of two open-source applications for mainstream use. OpenOffice.org has also worked with Mozilla in the past. The Abzilla project included both Mozilla developers and OpenOffice.org developers who worked together to achieve a successful release. OEone's participation in the OpenOffice.org project will guarantee another successful example of varied stakeholders collaborating on open-source projects. OEone's knowledge and expertise in Mozilla and the code they have contributed will ensure that we can use calendar information in OpenOffice.org's software. Their experience will also ensure that parts of OpenOffice.org can be dynamically integrated from Mozilla."

OEone is rapidly positioning itself to be the market leader for software that enables an easy-to-use, fully-integrated, and rich Internet experience. OEone's unique Operating Environment can power a host of Internet devices ranging from high-resolution handheld computers, Web tablets, and screen phones, to high-end All-In-One entertainment devices. The Operating Environment ensures that Internet devices deliver the simplicity of a consumer electronics product while providing rich Internet functionality and the personal productivity and multimedia applications typical of desktop computers.

OEone's platform harnesses the strength of the Linux OS (optimized for the Operating Environment), the Mozilla Browser, the Apache Web Server, GNU tools, and other key open-source technologies. OEone brings new value to the industry by integrating these key components into an Operating Environment that is fully accessible to all users with an easy-to-use Web-based Graphic User Interface.

OpenOffice.org is the home of the open-source project and its community of developers, users, and marketers responsible for the ongoing development of the OpenOffice.org product (reason: OpenOffice.org is also the development space for StarOffice). The mission of OpenOffice.org is to create, as a community, the leading international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. Additional ports, such as FreeBSD, IRIX and Mac OS X are in various stages of completion by developers and end-users in the OpenOffice.org community. OpenOffice.org 1.0 is written in C++ and has documented APIs licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License and Sun Industry Standards Source License open-source licenses.

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