OpenOffice is known as a powerful alternative of Microsoft Office but now they get another title by providing world first multi-button application mouse designed for the world’s leading open-source office productivity suite. It’s hard for me to imagine what should I do with that much button. We can think it as a mini keyboard which attach with a mouse.

The OpenOfficeMouse includes default profiles for the five core OpenOffice.org applications based on 662 million datapoints compiled by the usage tracking facility incorporated into OpenOffice.org 3.1. These profiles can be easily customized to suit the user’s preferences using the included OpenOfficeMouse setup software. The setup and customization software is an application that will be released as an open source software project under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 in the first quarter of 2010. Default profiles for 20 other games and applications are also included; the OpenOffice Mouse supports up to 63 profiles to be stored simultaneously in the mouse’s memory.

Here is the small feature details:-

• 18 programmable mouse buttons with double-click functionality
• Three different button modes: Key, Keypress, and Macro
• Analog Xbox 360-style joystick with optional 4, 8, and 16-key command modes
• Clickable scroll wheel
• 512k of flash memory
• 63 on-mouse application profiles with hardware, software, and autoswitching capability
• 1024-character macro support.
• Open source support software for creating, managing, and customizing application profiles
• Import and export of custom profiles in XML format
• Optional audio notification of profile switching with customizable wave files
• PDF export of profile button assignments
• Adjustable resolution from 400 to 1,600 CPI
• Default profiles for Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, and Draw based on actual usage statistics compiled for OpenOffice.org 3.1
• 20 default profiles for popular games and applications, including Adobe Photoshop, the Gnu Image Manipulation Program, World of Warcraft, and the Call of Duty series.

This incredible product is actually a result of partnership between OpenOffice.Org and WarMouse. Read full Press Release.

You can get more information about OpenOfficeMouse on http://www.openofficemouse.com. The OpenOfficeMouse supports Windows, Linux, and Macintosh operating systems and will retail for $74.99.

So, do you ready to buy it? Is it really a productive utility?