From: "Tom Davies"<tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
Hi :)
Oracle managed to mishandle OOo so badly that they couldn't "monetise it".
Apparently IBM pushed Oracle into donating OOo to The Apache Foundation a few
weeks ago.
There are Apache people in TDF (and some TDF in Apache) lists to help the 2
projects work together more closely and people are now allowed to work in both
again. It's bit weird because Oracle is not particularly close to Apache so
it's possible they were attempting to hamper Apache by giving them a "poisoned
pawn". I don't think Oracle were expecting Apache to suddenly work with TDF,
effectively draining the poison and making OOo much more viable. Then IBM
donated a lot of their Lotus code to Apache making OOo even more viable.
OpenSource co-operative competition between projects beat the proprietary
mind-set again.
Most MS people are probably very unaware of these rapid changes that have taken
place in the last few weeks so they probably do think they are fighting
"Oracle's OOo" by suggesting LibreOffice instead. Still, it's probably best not
to inform them because they seldom appreciate being given better intel
especially if it's not directly from MS.
Regards from
Tom :)
Many of the MS MVPs I know aren't swayed by Microsoft and suggest *best* solutions that
may not be a Microsoft solution.
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