OpenOffice.org was the big winner. The open source office productivity suite captured the award for best project overall, as well as being voted in as best project for the enterprise and education markets.

The project voted “Most Likely to Get Users Sued” was eMule, a peer-to-peer file sharing client. No surprise there. More revealing, however, was the winner of the “Best New Project” title. Magento, an open source e-commerce package, took the honors there, proving that interest in open source software remains strong among business customers.

A Web-based management solution for MySQL databases, phpMyAdmin, was voted “Most Likely to Be the Next $1 Billion Acquisition.” And Wine, the Windows compatibility layer for Linux, was voted “Most Likely to Be Accused of Patent Violation,” despite the fact that avoiding intellectual property disputes has been one of the Wine project’s goals from Day One.

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