Last year few of the developers at Oracle, left the company to form their own alliance, to form the Document Foundation and design a totally new LibreOffice open-source office suite. It was not disclosed, despite being the very obvious question that will be the future of the renowned OpenOffice.org project. Finally today an announcement came on behalf of Oracle, that is suspending the OpenOffice.org as commercial software, and instead it intends to shift the office suite into a completely community-based open source project.
Edward Screven, The Chief Corporate Architect at Oracle reportedly claimed that, "Given the breadth of interest in free personal productivity applications and the rapid evolution of personal computing technologies, we believe the OpenOffice.org project would be best managed by an organization focused on serving that broad constituency on a non-commercial basis. 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)."
He later also added that "Oracle has a long history of investing in the development and support of open source products." Oracle did not disclose any kind of elaborative detail regarding the fate of OpenOffice.org, or even its own current proprietary of Web-based office suite, Oracle Cloud Office, which has also been decided to support the ODF.
Winding up his statement, Screven exclaimed that "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."
The newly formed group of LibreOffice developers recently launched their first steady version of the software earlier this year.
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