Open source is a great inspiration for technology development. This proves that even communities can make a contribution to development. During a ceremony at the O’Reilly Group’s OSCON open source convention OpenOffice Productivity Suite made waves. It’s very encouraging to hear that OpenOffice.org was selected as the best over all project winner. The open source office productivity software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more; captured the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards for best project overall for the enterprise and education markets.

Open source developers just proved that it could create enterprise class applications based on open standards that could compete with commercial developed software. What’s best is this equally capable OpenOffice Productivity Suite software can be downloaded and used completely for any purpose free of charge.