Sun Microsystems released the latest version of their cross-platform, free, open-source office application suite - Open Office 3.0, the unprecedented demand for the latest version crashed the servers and Sun Microsystems has to run a stripped down version of the site to control the situation for now.

Available for a number of different operating systems like Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSD, OpenVMS, OS/2, Mac OS X and IRIX, the free Microsoft Office alternative supports Microsoft Office 97-2003 formats and ability to open Microsoft Office 2007 new xml based file formats including docx, xlsx and pptx.