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So a bunch of non-important people quit? Big deal.
the deal is the steering committee is now made up of all Oracle employees, no one from the community, a BIG deal for FOSS
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Do you think the Oracle shareholders really care much one way or the other about the OpenOffice name? I think if anything, the more profit-minded amongst them would simply be happy to cut loose a project that is probably not bringing in any direct revenues. The argument for keeping it might be to develop it as "Project Stick It To Microsoft", and attempt to undercut the office revenues. Even that, though, doesn't rea…
Yes. It is an asset that Sun paid cash money for, and Oracle paid cash money for in turn. So of course they care. My personal opinion is that eventually we'll see OO Calc getting the same integration with Oracle that Excel has with MSAS/SQL Server, and possibly OO Writer will form the core of a report writing engine.
"Paid cash for" is a sunk cost. They care about what it's going to do for them now and in the future. How much revenue did it bring in for Sun?
Maybe they can hack at it to make what you describe, but at that point do you think Oracle will care much about what it's called? I think it'd have a new name, myself. Oracle something, most likely.
I just don't see Oracle caring that much about it one way or the other. They wanted the server stuff, supposedly, and Java, most certainly. I can't see OO having figured much one way or the other, really.
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Yes. It is an asset that Sun paid cash money for, and Oracle paid cash money for in turn. So of course they care. My personal opinion is that eventually we'll see OO Calc getting the same integration with Oracle that Excel has with MSAS/SQL Server, and possibly OO Writer will form the core of a report writing engine.
> Yes. It is an asset that Sun paid cash money for, and Oracle paid cash money for in turn. So of course they care. "Paid cash for" is a sunk cost. They care about what it's going to do for them now and in the future. How much revenue did it bring in for Sun? Maybe they can hack at it to make what you describe, but at that point do you think Oracle will care much about what it's called? I think it'd have a new name,…
So a bunch of non-important people quit? Big deal.
Can anyone give some background on this? I just switched from Windows to Ubuntu, and have just started to familiarize myself with OpenOffice.
If you're worried about misplaced time investment, I'd recommend Abiword and Gnumeric for your Word and Excel replacements; they're blazing fast and Gnumeric supports a lot more than either Excel or OO's offering.
This reminds me of how Stallman's open source ideas have really shook up the software industry. I wonder what he thinks about all the recent turf battles with Java, Android, OpenOffice etc.