OpenOffice to LibreOffice

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On 09/29/2010 03:51 PM, James Mckenzie wrote:
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> The community should have seen this coming.  Next up might be spinning off of Java.  Oracle is in the business of making money (lot of it.)  
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> Supporting 'free' software is not in their game plan.  Basically, Oracle bought Sun Microsystems for their hardware and the Solaris Operating System.  
> All else is subject to discardment, either outright as was OpenSolaris or through sell-off (I expect this with StarOffice/OpenOffice, if it has 
> not happened yet.)  It may go to a company like Apple or maybe to SAP.  In any case, I don't expect StarOffice to remain an Oracle product for long.
> 
> James McKenzie
> 

  Indeed and time will tell ..   ZFS may also have been be a part of it
... its a potentially decent fit for their server side bus ...

  But we have LibreOffice now ... is that sufficient for linux needs or
you think something additional is needed .. resources perhaps ?

  g