Oracle gir opp OpenOffice..

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Oracle Announces Its Intention to Move OpenOffice.org to a Community-Based Project

REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire - April 15, 2011) - Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) today is announcing its intention to move OpenOffice.org 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 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.

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Positiv utvikling

 

LibreOffice kom som et resultat av at Oracle overtok OpenOffice.org fra Sun. The Document Foundation, som står bak LibreOffice, har jo ønsket og få tilbake navnet "OpenOffice" - det er ikke så vanskelig å forstå med tanke på hvor kjent merket er. Nå blir det kanskje mulig. Konsekvensen videre vil bli et felles prosjekt istedet for to konkurrerende(når konkurrenten er MS Office så burde en samle kreftene emm.).

 

Q: And why are you calling the software "LibreOffice" instead of "OpenOffice.org"?

A: The OpenOffice.org trademark is owned by Oracle Corporation. Our hope is that Oracle will donate this to the Foundation, along with the other assets it holds in trust for the Community, in due course, once legal etc issues are resolved. However, we need to continue work in the meantime - hence "LibreOffice" ("free office").

Kilde.

 

Svært mange utviklere har forlatt OpenOffice til fordel for Libreoffice, hvor sistnevnte er blitt standard kontorpakke i bla. Opensus, Fedora og Ubuntu. Den har også fått flere forbedringer, samt bedre integrert med GNU/Linux.

 

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Ble litt overrasket når jeg fant reklame/presentasjon av OpenOffice på universitetet i Bergen(pent lite hefte man kunne ta med seg). Dessverre bruker det overveldende flertallet der MS Office...

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