I know. Forking I apparently inherent to open source. Still another flavour of OO will add to the momentum, as companies will need to decide on their standard document format, either MS or ISO-IEC 26300 Open Document (sun+novell+ibm+..). Only after deciding Open Document will the choice become relevant which suite to use, depending on features, performance, training and support. And then OO.org is positioned well.
MS adopting Open Document would then probably be the biggest threat. Bringing in Evolution into OO would probably also require a fork, if not a complete rewrite to build it on top of uno. But I am quite sure the performance on windows would benefit, as well as solve the difficulties maintaining a multi-platform application. IMHO the next and inevitable step in winning the office wars. Bye, Ferry Op maandag 24-11-2008 om 09:03 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany: > Hi Ferry, > > > In the mean while, any chance of Evolution getting absorbed into the OO > > project? > > That's not mine to answer, and given the high number of discussions > about this in the past (see the discuss list, for instance), this > certainly is not an easy topic. Probably because there's a lot of > religion involved. > > Not to mention that Evolution might not like being absorbed. The more > since its mainly driven by a company which effectively forked OOo. > > Ciao > Frank >
