The end of OpenOffice?

Simon Jones is bemused by Oracle's attitude to OpenOffice

Since Oracle bought Sun Microsystems in 2009, many of the developers and supporters of OpenOffice have worried whether Oracle is committed to continued development of the project.

At the OpenOffice.org conference at the beginning of September in Budapest, Michael Bemmer, general manager of the new Oracle Office Global Business Unit, felt obliged to underline in his keynote speech what he called the “importance of Oracle Open Office and OpenOffice.org to Oracle and its customers”.

However, this appears not to have allayed the fears of the OpenOffice community, and by the end of the month their concern had reached a point where all the main players jumped ship, abandoning OpenOffice.org to form The Document Foundation and to rebrand the formerly eponymous software suite as “LibreOffice”.

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