hmm, maybe i am reading into this too much but steering seemed like the
place to post this.
i didnt see anything on the main oracle.com pressrelease page
but in the Trond Arne Undheim blog (http://blogs.oracle.com/trond/)
there is a post of 15 April 2011 appears to report an exerpt from an
oracle newsrelease
(http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Oracle-Announces-Its-Intention-to-Move-OpenOfficeorg-to-a-Community-Based-Project-NASDAQ-ORCL-1428324.htm)
the marketwire link shows as:
REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire - April 15, 2011) - **Oracle
Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL
<http://www.marketwire.com/mw/stock.jsp?Ticker=ORCL>) today is
announcing its intention to move OpenOffice.org
<http://ctt.marketwire.com/?release=744914&id=248455&type=1&url=http%3a%2f%2fOpenOffice.org%2f>
to a purely community-based open source project and to no longer offer
a commercial version of Open Office.
"Given the breadth of interest in free personal productivity
applications and the rapid evolution of personal computing
technologies, we believe the OpenOffice.org
<http://ctt.marketwire.com/?release=744914&id=248458&type=1&url=http%3a%2f%2fOpenOffice.org%2f>
project would be best managed by an organization 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 Open Office. Oracle will continue to strongly support the
adoption of open standards-based document formats, such as the Open
Document Format (ODF)."
Oracle has a long history of investing in the development and support
of open source products. We will continue to make large investments in
open source technologies that are strategic to our customers including
Linux and MySQL. Oracle is focused on Linux and MySQL because both of
these products have won broad based adoption among commercial and
government customers.
fingers crossed on availability of name and birdy logo?
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