OStatic

ZDNet Australia is out with an interesting interview with Simon Phipps, chief open source officer at Sun Microsystems. He sheds some light on the state of the OpenOffice 3 suite of productivity applications, and its ongoing impact on the free Lotus Symphony suite of applications from IBM. (A new Mac version of the Symphony suite is a free download here.) Among other things, Phipps reports a whopping 35 million downloads of OpenOffice 3 since October. I have to wonder whether the ultimate free producivity suite is a mashup, though.