Dear folks,
Upon reading some alerts, I have found out that OpenOffice is being forked and now it will be LibreOffice. It has the backing of Novel, Red Hat, ..., etc. This had to be done because of Oracle's recent treatment of OpenSolaris, and the possibility of it doing something similar here?
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3905711/Open-Office-Suite-...
We would have still had gnumeric, and abiword, koffice and other software, but just in case Oracle changes it's mind?
Now, Fedora 14 will continue to ship with OpenOffice version, will next version of Fedora switch to LibreOffice? Thanks!
Regards,
Antonio
Long Life to LibreOffice!
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14031@yahoo.com wrote:
Dear folks,
Upon reading some alerts, I have found out that OpenOffice is being forked and now it will be LibreOffice. It has the backing of Novel, Red Hat, ..., etc. This had to be done because of Oracle's recent treatment of OpenSolaris, and the possibility of it doing something similar here?
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3905711/Open-Office-Suite-...
We would have still had gnumeric, and abiword, koffice and other software, but just in case Oracle changes it's mind?
Now, Fedora 14 will continue to ship with OpenOffice version, will next version of Fedora switch to LibreOffice? Thanks!
Regards,
Antonio
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On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 19:46:11 -0700, edik landave elwanka@gmail.com wrote:
Long Life to LibreOffice!
Note that it is still possible they will get to use the openoffice.org trademark as Oracle has been invited to participate. See the H coverage of this: http://www.h-online.com/open/features/LibreOffice-A-fresh-page-for-OpenOffic...
On 09/28/2010 08:08 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 19:46:11 -0700, edik landaveelwanka@gmail.com wrote:
Long Life to LibreOffice!
Note that it is still possible they will get to use the openoffice.org trademark as Oracle has been invited to participate. See the H coverage of this: http://www.h-online.com/open/features/LibreOffice-A-fresh-page-for-OpenOffic...
Well, my reading of the "software crystal ball" :) tells me that business is in a nosedive worldwide. Oracle has already refused to participate in the new open source OS which is supposed to be based on opensolaris. I predict they will do the same with libreoffice. They really do not want a binary compatible competition to Solaris, nor do they want any os out there named solaris other than their own. I hope they will continue to be a successful business unlike so many that have gone the way of the dodo bird.
On 09/29/2010 12:12 AM, JD wrote:
Well, my reading of the "software crystal ball" :) tells me that business is in a nosedive worldwide. Oracle has already refused to participate in the new open source OS which is supposed to be based on opensolaris.
completely different - (open)solaris was/is essentially dead - linux is the de facto server standard .. why would any business want to spend money on open solaris - linux is their core.
On 09/28/2010 10:10 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
On 09/29/2010 12:12 AM, JD wrote:
Well, my reading of the "software crystal ball" :) tells me that business is in a nosedive worldwide. Oracle has already refused to participate in the new open source OS which is supposed to be based on opensolaris.
completely different - (open)solaris was/is essentially dead - linuxis the de facto server standard .. why would any business want to spend money on open solaris - linux is their core.
Hundreds of thousands of Solaris installed bases will not dump Solaris and switch to Linux. Too darned expensive to do so. They would have to throw away their millions if not billions in software and development investments, and then spend more to have the same ported or re-developed for Linux.
On 09/29/2010 07:09 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
Hundreds of thousands of Solaris installed bases will not dump Solaris and switch to Linux. Too darned expensive to do so.
I doubt there are 100's of 1,000's of business' running opensolaris ...
Solaris runs all over USA, Europe, Asia and Africa and South America. Yes --- there are that many installations. Relative to market size, it is a small ratio to be sure.
On 09/29/2010 12:51 PM, JD wrote:
On 09/29/2010 07:09 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
Hundreds of thousands of Solaris installed bases will not dump Solaris and switch to Linux. Too darned expensive to do so.
I doubt there are 100's of 1,000's of business' running opensolaris ...
Solaris runs all over USA, Europe, Asia and Africa and South America. Yes --- there are that many installations. Relative to market size, it is a small ratio to be sure.
The discussion (at least from me) was more about Opensolaris (it being analagous to Openoffice) and that opensolaris was killed off - not the regular Solaris which is alive and well (as far as I can tell) ... even tho dwindling for sure.
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