Winners of OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program Awards
Recognized; Community Prepares for OpenOffice.org 3.0
Sun Sponsored Awards Program Recognizes Open Source Technology
Innovation with 24 Community Members Sharing $175,000 Prize
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) October 6, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the winners of the
OpenOffice.org(TM) Community Innovation Challenge designed to fuel
innovation and community around OpenOffice.org,
as the community prepares for the imminent launch of its next-generation
productivity suite, OpenOffice.org 3.0. The contest was part of Sun's
million-dollar Open
Source Community Innovation Challenge Program, a multi-year program
supporting several Sun-sponsored open source communities.
“It has been a pleasure to contribute QATrack,
which gives the OpenOffice.org Community the ability to track the
qualification of the many releases being worked on,”
said Gold Medal winner Per Eriksson. “I look
forward to future involvement with this truly innovative, global project.”
“In support of Sun's commitment to free and
open-source software and the communities that sustain it, we developed
the Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program to foster innovation
and community, and to recognize the most interesting initiatives within
open source communities worldwide,” said Louis
Suarez-Potts, community development manager for OpenOffice.org at Sun. “The
winners the OpenOffice.org Program Committee chose have demonstrated
extraordinary creativity and collaboration, and their work has fuelled
significant growth in the OpenOffice.org community. Frankly, the work is
exciting and we have every hope and expectation that the contestants
will continue to participate. And that was what it was all about:
building the community by doing interesting work.”
The six OpenOffice.org Gold Medal winners and categories include the
following:
OpenOffice.org would like to congratulate the award winners - the
Community looks forward to seeing their projects develop. To hear
podcast sessions with Simon Phipps and Medal winners Regina Henschel,
Dominique Archambault and Vincent Spiewak visit Sun
news.
Sun is celebrating the growth of the open source community. In addition
to OpenOffice.org, Sun's open source portfolio of products includes
GlassFish(TM), OpenJDK(TM), Open Storage, OpenSolaris(TM) NetBeans(TM),
MySQL(TM), PostgreSQL and OpenSPARC(TM). For more on Sun's open source
offerings.
About OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org is a multi-platform and multilingual office suite and an
open-source project that was initiated by Sun Microsystems, Inc. in
2000. Sun continues to be its primary sponsor and contributor.
Compatible with all other major office suites and licensed under LGPL,
the product is free to download, use and distribute, for any purpose,
private or commercial. OpenOffice.org uses the ODF as its native file
format as well as fully supporting other common file formats (including
Microsoft Office). OpenOffice.org runs on all major platforms, including
all versions of Windows (Vista, too), Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and is
available in over one hundred languages. It is fully supported by
professional companies for consumer and enterprise use.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is The
Computer"(TM) -- Sun drives network participation through shared
innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, OpenOffice.org OpenSolaris,
OpenJDK, NetBeans, OpenOffice.org, MySQL, OpenSPARC and “The
Network Is The Computer” are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in
the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used
under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC
International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products
bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun
Microsystems, Inc.
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