Hi,
Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote:
Hi,
Ok, but have read something from Oracle about OOo and Free Software ?
Free and Open Source Software is indeed an important thing, but the
people behind it matter even more. After watching all the videos [1][2]
currently available from Oracle on welcoming Sun, I am more than happy
to learn, that there will be almost no layoffs but mostly hirings.
[1] http://www.oracle.com/us/sun/044498
[2] http://www.oracle.com/events/productstrategy/index.html
No, only Cloud Computing which is, IMHO, a workaround to kill Free Software.
Well I recommend to watch Larry Ellison's session at [1]. He makes some
fun about 'cloud computing' clearly stating that's just a new buzzword
for technologies already existing.
Indeed Oracle isn't promoting FOSS very actively, but they are a large
user, adopter, distributer and contributer with several FOSS products.
The facts are :
- 1 slide versus 100 000 000 downloads
OOo is not yet a core business of Oracle. They have been doing a lot of
cooperations with Sun in the past, hence they are certainly prioritizing
in merging this fields of business now.
The good thing seems to be, that OOo has become an independent business
unit within Oracle, retaining all the Sun stuff, hence the situation is
we are still doing the same things with the same people here. What comes
later? Who knows! But this was also an often discussed topic while Sun
was the owner of OOo.
- Oracle does not know the right name of OpenOffice.org.
Jonathan Schwartz also did use OpenOffice without .org quite often in
his Sun blog (http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/), so this seems to be an
persisting issue from pre-Oracle times. ;-)
Best regards,
Peter
Best regards.
JBF
Le 31.01.2010 01:04, Graham Lauder a écrit :
Hi Cor,
Thanks for your kind words and especially for your years of support for
OOo.
Let's keep on doing good things and talking about them.
;-)
Liz
I'd like to also echo Cors comments and add a few of my own. There has never been a
time when I haven't been proud to be part of the OOo community and proud of our
corporate partner. No matter the ill informed and parochial slings and arrows cast
in Suns direction they are the example of how a corporate partner can work with a
community. That is not to say it's perfect, it will probably never be because of
the obvious tensions between an open community and the necessities of corporate
governance but what has been obvious to me since the early days of the project, has
been the constant improvement in the connection between Sun and the community and
the obvious desire to see that improvement continue.
It is good to see Larry talking about "Hiring Sun into Profit". Let's hope we see
some of the development load spread about in OOo/SO. I see a bright future.
Good luck to all our team in Hamburg under the new regime.
Cheers
GL
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