(CA-OPENOSX) OpenOSX Ships Office 1.0
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SWALL MEADOWS, Calif.--(OPENOSX-INC)--May 13, 2002--
OpenOSX, Inc., a leading provider of easy-to-use, world-class
open-source software, today began shipping their Office 1.0 CD to
the budding Mac OS X community.

AbiWord is an award-winning open source alternative to
Microsoft Word. Gnumeric is a world-class spreadsheet with 95
percent of the functions of Microsoft Excel built-in. Guppi is a dynamic
charting, drawing and graphing application integrated into Gnumeric
spreadsheets. SodiPodi is a vector based image manipulation
program, a popular graphics editor often compared to Adobe
Illustrator. TeXShop is a typesetting editor and previewer for semi-
automating the authoring of technical documents.

OpenOSX's Office 1.0 CD will install this suite of powerful and
flexible tools for Macintosh Operating System, Mac OS X, with ease.
The Office CD is shipping immediately. The new version adds
improved stability, performance and the addition of SodiPodi and
TeXShop among other improvements.

AbiWord can edit most Microsoft Word documents, Gnumeric
edits most Microsoft Excel documents. SodiPodi can be used to edit
documents in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
TeXShop edits DeVice Independent (DVI) file formats. All can
print to PDF files with Mac OS X Print Center support.

OpenOSX has a digital Screenshot Gallery of their Office
product in action, on the World Wide Web available for viewing,
printing or broadcasting at: http://OpenOSX.com/office/screenshots.html.

The OpenOSX Office 1.0 CD is available for 40 U.S. dollars.
Patrons of previous versions of the CD may upgrade for 10 U.S.
dollars. OpenOSX is bundling the CD with The GNU Image
Manipulation Program (The Gimp) with their Office 1.0 CD for 50
U.S. dollars.

OpenOSX, Inc. is a company dedicated to serving, and
expanding, the Macintosh community. Founded on the premise that
many computer users are intimidated by the UNIX command-line,
OpenOSX committed itself to one mission- bringing popular Unix
software to both the "Unix-challenged" and the seasoned, Mac
inclined system administrator in a friendly, “Mac Like” environment.

More information about the OpenOSX Office CD is available
electronically at http://OpenOSX.com/office/.

Note to Editors: OpenOSX is a trademark owned by
OpenOSX, Inc., Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft
Corp., Adobe is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Inc.
All other trademarks are owned by their respective owner.

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CONTACT: OpenOSX.com
Jeshua Lacock, 760/935-4736
jeshua@OpenOSX.com
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