nsane.forums Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Oracle has announced that it intends OpenOffice.org to become a "purely community-based open source project" and that it plans to no longer offer a commercial version of OpenOffice. Edward Screven, Oracle's Chief Corporate Architect, said the company intends "working immediately with community members to further the continued success of Open Office." He said that because there was a "breadth of interest in free personal productivity applications", that the company believed the OpenOffice.org project would be "best managed by an organisation focused on serving that broad constituency on a non-commercial basis". It was unclear if Oracle intended to continue investing in OpenOffice. The company referred to its intent to "support the adoption of open standards-based document formats such as Open Document Format (ODF)" and its "long history" of investing in the development of open source products which were strategically important to its customers. It was also unclear if the announcement meant Oracle would be reaching out to the Document Foundation's LibreOffice project which forked from OpenOffice.org in September 2010 to produce a community based version of OpenOffice. Meanwhile, today, the OpenOffice.org developers announced a beta version of OpenOffice 3.4. Oracle has a web-based office suite, Oracle Cloud Office, which is a proprietary suite which supports ODF. The announcement suggests that Oracle will be focussing its commercial resources on that suite. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 16, 2011 Administrator Share Posted April 16, 2011 Hardly any information available ATM. It looks like Oracle will give away the project to some community based Org. Some say this is a anti-LibreOffice move by Oracle, and that they will not give the project to LibreOffice, but I hope otherwise. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myidisbb Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 so its basicaly dead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted April 19, 2011 Administrator Share Posted April 19, 2011 Oracle drops OpenOffice.org Oracle announced its intentions to discontinue the OpenOffice.org (OOo) suite of software on Friday 15th. The move does not come as a major surprise, following a 'fork' of the OpenOffice developers several months ago. The group who left OpenOffice.org development founded a 'vendor-neutral' group, known as The Document Foundation. The Document Foundation then began to develop an alternative to OpenOffice, known as LibreOffice. Unsurprisingly, the software suite is free, and is based upon the OpenOffice source code. Ars Technica provides coverage of how Oracle intends to progress without the OOo software in its arsenal. Already, LibreOffice has gathered the support of commercial companies traditionally linked to OpenOffice - for example, Red Hat, Novell, Canonical, and Google have all moved their support towards The Document Foundation. The huge shift in support has left Oracle, quite literally, maintaining the open source software alone. It should come as no real surprise that Oracle have since considered and decided to end support for their software suite. When The Document Foundation was formed, they invited Oracle to give up the rights to the OpenOffice branding. Oracle refused to hand over the rights to the OpenOffice product, and went a step further still, by attempting to pressure key members of The Document Foundation into resigning from their posts in OpenOffice.org development. The sheer popularity of LibreOffice has already convinced the developers of some Linux distributions to package it in their installations over the traditional OpenOffice software. Such is the popularity of LibreOffice that OpenOffice has ceased to be financially secure, meaning that Oracle no longer intends to continue to produce the software. Oracle's position in the world of open-source software was shaken by the overnight surge in popularity for LibreOffice. Oracle sold a commercial version of OpenOffice, much like Sun Microsystems chose to do with StarOffice, another open-source office suite. While the significance of Oracle's submission to the power of The Document Foundation is quite surprising, it continues to leave questions hanging over the future of another Oracle project: Cloud Office. While the Cloud Office project used its own source code and was not built from OpenOffice, the future of the project is not guaranteed. While many open-source office applications exist, OpenOffice.org is generally regarded as the most popular, due to its appearance in many different Linux distributions, including Ubuntu. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atasas Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 money, money, money... even on freeware product :dance2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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