Oracle drops OpenOffice from commercial software portfolio

[Jack]

Oracle is dropping the OpenOffice application suite from its commercial software offerings, and handing the code to the open source community.
The company said in a statement that it will concentrate its open source efforts on MySQL and Linux, where there is a broad base of corporate and government support. Oracle did not say whether it will still invest in OpenOffice.

"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 organisation 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 OpenOffice. Oracle will continue to strongly support the adoption of open standards-based document formats, such as the Open Document Format [ODF]."

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[McLovin]

What....I use this a portable version....that sucks

 

[Ink]

So what would that mean for OpenOffice?

 

[iPanik]

I think this is a good thing.
Nothing good came from oracles acquisition of the project, they were loosing a lot of contributers.
They will hopefully rejoin with the libreoffice team and focus on the product, and regain support.

 

[bogdan]

I agree with iPanik. Oracle was not interested in developing OpenOffice so it made it open source again.