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My take is this, I read all the 300+ messages posted at Slashdot, and found it
amazing that one could surmise what Oracle may or may not do wrt one of its
most important assets without seriously entering Chairman Larry into the
equation. (As we all know, Chairman Larry owns about one quarter of Oracle,
installed two of his protégées as its co-presidents, and more importantly,
appointed his personal accountant (the emphasis is not on "personal" but on
"accountant"--meaning cost control) as chairman of Oracle's board. He IS
Oracle.)
If I recall correctly, Michael Bemmer was one of the very few Sun employees who
were allowed to solo a platform during the January 27 Oracle + Sun Strategy
Update. Larry Ellison LOVES the potential of OpenOffice.org
("OpenOffice")--both, I believe, in terms of $$$ and, probably more
importantly, establishing his legacy.
Although OpenOffice is highly cross-platformed, it is important that Oracle
makes sure that OpenOffice runs well on a platform that it can control. I
don't know if anyone here is aware of these: The version of OpenOffice that
comes with the Ubuntu CD is truncated. SuSE Linux is bundled with the
Novell-forked version of OpenOffice, and it caused some of our macros to be
completely screwed up. With regard to the Windows version of OpenOffice,
Microsoft is known to do funny things (e.g., changing the dll) on Windows
programs when they may threaten its dominance. Whether or not Microsoft may do
that again is really not the issue, but the fact that Microsoft holds that kind
of power prohibits decision-makers to consider alternatives.
I know this idea is crazy and probably idiotic, but instead of pushing
OpenOffice to Windows users, perhaps Oracle should try to push the
OpenOffice/OpenSolaris combo.
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