Welcome to the OpenOffice Awards page.
If you know of a publication, magazine, institution, organisation or other body which has given OpenOffice an award recently, and you would like to let more people know about it, send us an email with all the details to: marketing@openoffice.apache.org.
We received two Bossie Awards in 2012, both in the Desktop
category.
The first award was for the Apache OpenOffice application and the second was for the OpenOffice Templates repository.
The
UpdateStar Editor's Choice Award is given only to a small group of top
software products leading in their field.
PC för Alla, Sweden's largest computer magazine, awarded us a medal for
being on their Top20 List for free downloads.
Award given to OOWriter - see the full article.
Two awards: OpenOffice.org as Best Office Suite and Writer as Best Single Office Program. - see the full article.
OpenOffice.org, bolstered no doubt by its recent 3.0
release, retains its crown as your Favorite Office Program with the same
share of your vote as last year, 85%. - see the full article.
The German magazine Computerbild awarded us their "Top 250
Download Award" in January. They offer OpenOffice.org for download on their
website and it has been one of the most downloaded programs in their
repository. Thanks, folks!
OpenOffice.org was awarded the SOHO AWARDS 2008 yesterday. Congratulations to this effort!
OpenOffice.org was awarded three prizes in the SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards! Thanks to all our users for their votes!
OpenOffice.org -
OpenOffice.org 2.4 review "The maturity of OpenOffice is fast winning
over many of those still deep-rooted in a Microsoft Office way of working,
and while this latest release isn't likely to tip too many more over the
edge, it's a further move forward in the quest to be accepted as the
legitimate alternative that it already is."
OpenOffice.org wins Download of the Day.
"CHIP Online is one of the leading computer websites in Europe with more than 30 million users and 200 million page impressions per month. We are pleased to inform you, that your software “OpenOffice” is the Download of the day 27/03/2008"
OpenOffice.org wins the 2008 Duke's Choice Award for Fans'
Choice.
"The Duke's Choice Awards program recognizes the year's most influential Java technology-based applications submitted by developers and companies around the world. The winners are chosen by Vice President and Sun Fellow James Gosling, along with a panel of Java technology experts at Sun."
"OpenOffice.org
garnered a whopping 85% of the votes to win Favorite Office Program, while
competitors AbiWord and KOffice squeaked in a barely perceptible 3% each.
Nor did EIOffice, a program that has received much praise in our pages in
the past, register more than a few votes. OpenOffice.org has become the de
facto default office suite for Linux." Linux Journal June 2008
OpenOffice.org -
OpenOffice.org 2.2 review "This is a fully functioning office suite
that's compatible with Microsoft Office files, consisting of a word
processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc) and presentation (Impress)
programs, along with a database (Base) and a vector drawing tool (Draw) ...
There might not be any such thing as a free lunch, but there most certainly
is a free office suite thanks to this excellent effort. In terms of
functionality, version 2.2 polishes the various programs up nicely, and
OpenOffice really is up there with the big players."
"OpenOffice.org 2.0
has won the first prize in category Office applications to loud
applause from the gathered prize winners. OpenOffice version 2.0 has won
with an extra reserves of votes over other office applications in the
famous computer magazine CHIP contest - prestigious Readers' Choice.
Openoffice.org provides access to every functionality thanks to open API
components and the pioneer, open, XML based file format."
Verdict: "The
best
all-round office suite is also the cheapest. With excellent Microsoft
compatibility, a consistent interface and a good network of ad-hoc support,
this is the king of the business tools."
Rating:
"We should point out here that PC Pro isn't throwing its weight
behind OpenOffice purely by dint of the fact that it's free. We firmly
stand by our assertion that it offers a more compelling proposition than
Microsoft Office; its cross-platform support and the speed at which it's
being developed leads us to believe that, together with StarOffice, it
could - nay should - become the dominant force in office suites within the
next three to five years.
"If you don't want to be left behind, now could be the time to switch."
"There's a lot of talk about putting Linux on the
Desktop across the enterprise next year. I'll give you one guess why this
can be done?"
"Picking any other application for this category is simply negligent. No other project is making inroads with other operating systems (outside of Linux) like the big OO."
"All the power of an MS-compatible office suite without
the high price tag.
"For those of you who are familiar with the MS Office suite but can't justify the price tag, then take a look at this free alternative ...
"OpenOffice is available as a free (but large) download or you can often purchase it on CD from a distributor for a nominal fee. There are versions for most Operating Systems.
"The suite consists of several apps, the most useful probably being the word processor which is fantastic! The HTML editor is also handy and the drawing package pretty decent too.
"A quality product that boasts plenty of powerful features. You shouldn't need much more than this for all your office needs!"
September 20, 2003
"Choosing the best of
the best in different sectors of GNU/Linux products and services is not an
easy task. In many cases, there was more than one contender that was worthy
of an award in any given category. However, we attempted to select the
easiest to use, most robust, most promising, and - when possible - most
free (as in freedom) products for the Open
Choice Awards 2003.
"For years, GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems suffered from poor, buggy office suites. Fortunately, OpenOffice.org has fixed much of this as Sun Microsystems and others work to make it (and its proprietary variant, StarOffice) the best office suite available. In the most recent releases, OpenOffice features improved Microsoft Office file format compatibility, the ability to export to useful internet formats such as Macromedia Flash for Impress presentations and Draw drawings, and dramatically faster startup. Perhaps most exciting is that the suite is now truly able to be a universal office suite in a heterogeneous office environment, with support for UNIX and UNIX-like systems such as GNU/Linux as well as Windows and Mac OS X."
Linux Journal, a publication of Specialized
Systems Consultants, Inc. (SSC), has announced the winners of the
2003 Readers' Choice Awards. Over 7,500 readers visited the Linux Journal
web site and voted on their top choices in 28 categories.
"Linux Journal's annual Readers' Choice Awards allow members of the Linux community to pick their favorites in a number of categories, write-ins are accepted. Voting in the 2003 Readers' Choice Awards took place between June 30 and July 25, 2003, and was open to everyone. More information about the awards is also available in the November issue of Linux Journal, #115."
"Linux Journal's Editors' Choice
Awards are well-known as the premiere forum recognizing
outstanding product developments and achievements in the Linux market.
"A panel of more than 50 distinguished Linux experts was assembled to nominate products for the awards, which were then sent to the Linux Journal editors who chose the final winners.
"Featured in the September 2002 issue of Linux Journal, the winners of the Best Office Application award were Sun Microsystems for OpenOffice.org 1.0."
San Jose, CA, September 30, 2002
"SYS-CON Media announced today the results of its three annual
awards programs: the fifth annual Java Developer's Journal Readers'
Choice Awards; the third annual XML-Journal Readers'
Choice Awards; and the first annual Web Services Journal
Editor's Choice Awards. The finalists and the winners will be
announced at the Web Services Edge 2002 West–International Web Services,
Java, and XML Conference & Expo being held October 1-3 at the McEnery
Convention Center in San Jose, California.
"Widely referred to as the 'Oscars of the Software Industry', the JDJ Readers' Choice Awards program has become the most respected industry competition of its kind.
"The full results of this year's JDJ voting will appear in the November 2002 issue of Java Developer's Journal. The JDJ polls were open for just under a year, from November 6, 2001, through September 23, 2002, and at least 30,000 Java Developer's Journal readers cast their votes. The total of award nominations also reached a new record high, with more than 180 companies nominating over 705 products in 29 different award categories—seven more categories than last year. Many of the new ones reflect emerging trends in the Java space, such as 'Best Wireless Java Application' and 'Best XML Tool'."
Slovenia
"OpenOffice.org was awarded the Best Product award at the InterINFOS fair in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the nation's most important IT event. Each year, Monitor, the nation's leading IT magazine, selects among the exhibitors a product, which has been available on the market for no more than one year and which has created the most prominent and important appearance on the market. This year, the Best Product award was granted to OpenOffice.org.
"Says Monitor: 'We believe that the award went to the right hands. The winner is OpenOffice.org with a Slovenian translation, a project with its roots in the computing community rather than in a particular company. This is a precedent that will show the extent to which open source code can reach, and what can be expected from it in the future.'"
More here:
http://www.infomediji.si/s.nsf/vse/7F2CFA9AB0A6610CC1256C5A0062C864
Overview of OpenOffice.org:
http://www.infomediji.si/s.nsf/vse/
3774EBF6A3AD6859C1256C21003CB02D
United Kingdom, April 23, 2002
On April 23 2002, Linux Format, the UK's best-selling Linux magazine, officially announced that "OpenOffice.org was the overall winner in the category Best Business Software in the Linux Format Awards 2001, as voted for by readers of the magazine and registered visitors to the site."