What we know about Oracle Cloud Office, OpenOffice.org - 0 views
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Gary Edwards on 06 Feb 10Product announcements have raised questions Oracle and OpenOffice.org don't want to answer. Here's what we know. By Eric Lai Eric has provided us with a comprehensive set of questions surrounding the Oracle aquisition of Sun. The key issues he focuses on concern the future of OpenOffice, MYSQL and something called Oracle Cloud Office. Unfortunately his efforts resulted in only a handful of tentative answers. Which leads me to believe that over a year of negotiations and planning at Oracle has left them up in the air and undecided. Time to go through the questions. I'm going to use the Diigo highlight and comments overlay of Eric's article to do this.
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Paul Merrell on 06 Feb 10"Apparently confirming last year's report, Screven said that Sun had been working on Oracle Cloud Office 'for some time.'" Sun reorganized internally in February of 2008, transferring the StarOffice/OOo resources under a newly-minted Cloud Computing division.That seems likely to be the point when Sun got serious about the cloud-based rewrite of OOo. So around two years into the effort?