The Future of OpenOffice.org 66
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snydeq writes "Oracle's decision to spin OpenOffice.org into an Apache incubation podling raises several questions regarding the future of the code, not the least of which is how it will co-exist with LibreOffice. Also of note are the business implications of Oracle's decision, which some see opening up commercial opportunities for OpenOffice.org support, as well as a likely push from Google and IBM to woo current OpenOffice.org customers to Google Docs and Lotus Symphony."
Re:Lotus Symphony (Score:5, Informative)
The current version of Lotus Symphony is a fork of OpenOffice that IBM did quite a bit of work on. It's actually pretty nice.
Thank you for the reminder (Score:5, Informative)
To install the latest version of LibreOffice (3.40 final)
Re:Who cares? (Score:4, Informative)
Allegedly, Sun decided it would be cheaper to buy OpenOffice or StarOffice or JavaOffice or whatever it was called at the time and throw developers at it than to continue licensing Microsoft Office.
There's no Microsoft Office on Solaris.
Sun was trying to push Sunrays on corporate desktops and needed an office package for that. Sun also needed an office package for employees as AbiWord wasn't very useful. :-)
Re:Openoffice is dying. Long live LibreOffice. (Score:3, Informative)
Damned spellchecker turned my rabid dog into a rabbit-dog mutant! :)