Sun Sponsored Awards Program Recognizes Open Source Technology
Innovation with 24 Community Members Sharing $175,000 Prize
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.
