OpenOffice 2.0 Roadmap

OpenOffice 1.1 is pretty good, and OpenOffice 1.1.1 will be a bit better, but OpenOffice 2.0 is really going to be something.

The plan for OpenOffice 2.0 is laid out in a document called the Q Concept. It's a comprehensive roadmap to making sure OpenOffice 2.0 is a truly world-class office suite capable of capturing a large share of the market.

The main thrust is that OpenOffice 2.0 will be much more compatible with Microsoft Office, and users of Microsoft Office will feel more at home with OpenOffice 2.0 than they did with previous versions.

For instance, OpenOffice 1.1 has a pretty good database frontend, but it's a bit hidden and hard to get used to; OpenOffice 2.0's database frontend will be much more intuitive.

Open Issues

I wanted to get a feel for what's left to do before OpenOffice 2.0 can be released, so I put together an overview of the bugs scheduled to be fixed, plus enhancements and new features, broken down in several ways. The table entries are counts as of March 1st, 2004; click on the count to see a detailed list (and click on that to drill down to individual issues).

(Note: these are the outstanding issues in the real OpenOffice.org bug tracking system; the data is a bit untidy, so you might have to play with it for a while before you get a feel for what it means.)

By Component

	Defect	Enhancement	Feature
Word Processor	256	91	28
Spreadsheet	100	57	49
Presentation	80	16	19
Framework	75	37	155
Database Access	59	39	39
Drawing	25	10	4
Scripting	9	0	0

By Keyword

	Defect	Enhancement	Feature
ms_interoperability	29	10	6
crash	7	0	0
needmoreinfo	7	0	0
valgrind	2	0	0
Q-PCD	1	2	223