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OpenOSX Office 0.9, Now Shipping
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SWALL MEADOWS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2001--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.

Gimp is The GNU Image Manipulation Program, a popular graphics
editor often compared to PhotoShop.

OpenOSX's package will install this suite of powerful and flexible
tools for Macintosh Operating System, Mac OS X, with ease.

AbiWord 0.9.4.1 is a full-featured, award-winning word processor
that can edit Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, XHTML and RTF documents. It
boasts: multiple columns, on-the-fly spell checking, style sheets,
multiple language support and more. AbiWord can write RTF, HTML,
XHTML, PalmDoc and ASCII document formats.

Gnumeric 0.74 can edit Microsoft Excel, Lotus 123, MultiPlan, Plan
Perfect, HTML and CSV file formats. It is a complete spreadsheet that
offers a comprehensive function suite, data analysis tools, data
consolidation, cell formatting, multiple "undos," search and replace.
Gnumeric will write Excel, PDF, HTML, XML, CSV and Data Interchange
Format files.

Gimp 1.2.1 may be used to edit Adobe Photoshop, TIFF, JPEG and PNG
file formats. Gimp offers complete image manipulation tools, filters,
plug-ins, text and effects. It also has powerful image automation
capabilities. It can write Photoshop (with layers intact), TIFF, JPEG
and PNG file formats.

All of the OpenOSX product's ship with complete online help,
documentation, and limited-support, configured source code and more.

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 0.9 CD is available for 30 U.S. dollars.
OpenOSX is offering an upgrade to the 1.0 version of their CD for 10
U.S. dollars that will include improvements and added vector
illustration and graphing/plotting software.

The OpenOSX Office package will install and configure the
following list of software packages:
AbiWord 0.9.4.1
Gnumeric 0.74
Gimp 1.2.1 (optional)
XFree86 4.1.99.1
XDarwin 1.0.4
Ghostview 1.5
Oroborous Window
Manager
ORBit 0.5.11
Gnome Application
Library 0.17
Bonobo 1.0.10
Glib 1.2.8
Libxml 1.8.14
GnomePrint 0.31
DYLib

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

OpenOSX is a trademark owned by OpenOSX.com, Microsoft is a
registered trademark of Microsoft Corp., Photoshop is a registered
trademark of Adobe Systems Inc. All other trademarks are owned by
their respective owner.

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CONTACT: OpenOSX.com
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