Udine moves to OpenOffice, will save , Euro

16 September The City of Udine, in Italy, announced a process that will lead to the installation of OpenOffice on municipal desktops, saving the city , Euro. ZDNet's Raffaele Mastrolonardo has the details.

Million downloads

17 April The Apache OpenOffice project is proud to tell you that our software was downloaded over million times. Join us in celebrating this big achievement!

Italian region adopts OpenOffice, saves 2 Million Euro

10 October The Italian administrative region of Emilia-Romagna announced plans to move to OpenOffice, saving 2 million euro.

Volunteers, not Amateurs

8 January Apache OpenOffice is developed % by volunteers. Apache does not pay for developers, for translators, for QA, for marketing, for UI, for support, etc. Of course, we're happy to accept donations to the Apache Software Foundation, to keep our servers runnings and for similar overhead expenses. But our products are developed entirely by volunteers.

Some users are initially worried by this statement:
How can software for free, developed by volunteers, be any good?
Read on for an answer