For OpenOffice.org, 2008 is “The Year of 3″ - the year we release OpenOffice.org Version 3, and broadcast to the world the 3 reasons why they should use the software. We’ve reached the end of the beta test, which has been downloaded by thousands of people around the world. The feedback has been tremendous, and the developers have used it to build the first Release Candidate.

There’s a description of what a Release Candidate is here on the wiki, but if no issues are found, this build could be OpenOffice.org 3. For this reason, I’m carefully monitoring my local mirror for it to appear and looking forward to giving it a try. The Release Notes are already available.

Will OpenOffice.org 3 ship on the originally scheduled date (September 16th?). The latest date is always available here - if I was a betting man, I’d put a small bet on 16th, but a much larger bet on later in the month

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