4 MARCH, 2005 – The OpenOffice.org project is pleased to announce that the first public beta release of OpenOffice.org 2.0 is now available for download and is available in English for Windows, GNU/Linux and Solaris. Additional platforms and localisations for Brazilian Portuguese, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Turkish, amongst others, will follow shortly.