adjustments.
package, which started its life as StarOffice, a competitor to Microsoft Office
for IBM OS/2 and Unix systems. Sun Microsystems bought it and converted
it to an open source project called OpenOffice.org. It includes Writer for
word processing, Calc for spreadsheets, Impress for presentations, Draw for
drawing graphics, and conversion utilities for various file formats, including
all Microsoft formats.
OpenOffice.org was released (May 2002), the project reported nearly a million down-
loads. Nobody knows exactly how many people use it, but most estimates put it at more
than 10 million.
.org). You can also get it on CD or as part of a book-CD package, such as
OpenOffice.org Writer by Jean Hollis Weber (O'Reilly Community Press). And