An interesting piece of research came my way today courtesy of Computer Weekly magazine. They asked their tame panel questions about open-source versus commercial software, and published their findings here.
The section of interest to OpenOffice.org enthusiasts states:
The majority of panellists have not trialled or reviewed any office/desktop productivity software, although around a third (35%) have [...]

It was also good today to see a report on Oracle’s plans for OpenOffice.org. Sun Microsystems is OpenOffice.org’s founding and principle sponsor, so the news that Sun was to be acquired by Oracle had set hearts fluttering in the open-source world.
It’s worth quoting the relevant section in full:
What is Oracle’s plan for OpenOffice?
Oracle has a [...]

Those of you who keep an eye on the download counter on the OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet will have noticed we have been inexorably moving towards another significant milestone. When the latest figures appear tomorrow, we expect them to show that sometime today, the One Hundred Millionth (100,000,000) person clicked on the Download OpenOffice.org button since [...]

For the past four years I’ve been running this site from the server under the stairs – a seven year old Dell Dimension 4500S hidden away in a cupboard literally under the stairs in the house here. With an ADSL connection and DynDNS, it was all I needed to keep my little corner of the [...]

I blogged at the start of July that we’d be using OCS software to organise this year’s OpenOffice.org Annual Conference (OOoCon 2009). Well, by my calendar, OOoCon is now less than five weeks’ away, and I feel as if I’ve been working on nothing else for the past three months (except put our house on [...]