hmm, maybe i am reading into this too much but steering seemed like the place to post this.
i didnt see anything on the main oracle.com pressrelease page
but in the Trond Arne Undheim blog (http://blogs.oracle.com/trond/)
there is a post of 15 April 2011 appears to report an exerpt from an oracle newsrelease
(http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Oracle-Announces-Its-Intention-to-Move-OpenOfficeorg-to-a-Community-Based-Project-NASDAQ-ORCL-1428324.htm)
the marketwire link shows as:
REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire - April 15, 2011) - **Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL <http://www.marketwire.com/mw/stock.jsp?Ticker=ORCL>) today is announcing its intention to move OpenOffice.org <http://ctt.marketwire.com/?release=744914&id=248455&type=1&url=http%3A%2F%2FOpenOffice.org%2F> to a purely community-based open source project and to no longer offer a commercial version of Open Office.
"Given the breadth of interest in free personal productivity applications and the rapid evolution of personal computing technologies, we believe the OpenOffice.org <http://ctt.marketwire.com/?release=744914&id=248458&type=1&url=http%3A%2F%2FOpenOffice.org%2F> project would be best managed by an organization focused on serving that broad constituency on a non-commercial basis," said Edward Screven, Oracle's Chief Corporate Architect. "We intend to begin working immediately with community members to further the continued success of Open Office. Oracle will continue to strongly support the adoption of open standards-based document formats, such as the Open Document Format (ODF)."
Oracle has a long history of investing in the development and support of open source products. We will continue to make large investments in open source technologies that are strategic to our customers including Linux and MySQL. Oracle is focused on Linux and MySQL because both of these products have won broad based adoption among commercial and government customers.
fingers crossed on availability of name and birdy logo?