OpenOffice.org 3.4.0 Beta 1 was posted on FileHippo.com on 11 Apr 2011 (today is 1 Aug 2011) with no more betas or RC. In the past OpenOffice.org would have posted 3 or 4 updated version in this amount of time. So this is the reason I searched and found the article post below.......
Oh, if you are using OpenOffice.org as I am, than you and I should think about a change over in the near future!
The decline and fall of OpenOffice.org & the natural heir of the original OpenOffice.org appears to be LibreOffice.org......see...notes from the article (The Decline and Fall of OpenOffice.org...dated 11 June 2011) below.....
Last week, Oracle donated OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation, LibreOffice.org is looking more and more like the natural heir of the original OpenOffice.org -- by which I mean the project that will do the free software community the most benefit..
LibreOffice will be both months ahead of OpenOffice.org, and able to borrow OpenOffice.org code, and OpenOffice.org behind and unable to borrow LibreOffice code.
Under these circumstances, how can OpenOffice.org ever hope to compete? Unless something unforeseen happens, OpenOffice.org will start from behind, and never have a chance of catching up.
Having nothing against Apache's version of OpenOffice.org -- even though the donation does seem like one last spiteful gesture by Oracle against The Document Foundation. But given the challenges it faces and LibreOffice's head start, I also see little chance of it succeeding
The new incubator project may have the name and the trademark, but it appears to have no future. At best, it seems doomed to hobble along for a few years, falling farther and farther behind LibreOffice until it collapses from irrelevance and neglect.
For many, this abandonment of copyleft is yet another reason for staying away from OpenOffice.org. With the Free Software Foundation endorsing LibreOffice over OpenOffice.org for precisely this reason, licensing is still another barrier against OpenOffice.org's success.
The Decline and Fall of OpenOffice.org
Jun 11, 2011 12:32am GMT
http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/The-Decline-and-Fall-of-OpenOffice.org