Open Office 3.1 is released with a lot of new bug fixes and improvemnets. Ubuntu 9.04 comes with Open Office 3.0 by default. Open office has always been the flag bearer of Open Source movement. You may also want to check out this list of 25 of the best OpenOffice extensions.

Update: OpenOffice 3.1.1 is released. Follow the steps below for upgrading to this latest release of OpenOffice.
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Open Office is one among those flag ship products in the world of Open Source. It is an Office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and many other. It works on Linux, Windows or Mac based systems. Open office has recently released the latest version of the office suite called Open Office 3.0 with many new upgrades. Ubuntu 8.10 is preinstalled with Open Office 2.4 and its time to upgrade. Its not yet arrived in the official ubuntu intrepid repo.
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