Under Sun, OpenOffice integration with business applications was sorely lacking. In particular, the public sector comes to mind. Thus, in many organizations, OpenOffice is a real option. The complexity of an office productivity suite is much smaller than that of a serious business application suite. OpenOffice, in contrast, while far from perfect, is a fine contender for office productivity software. On the top floor of Business Software applications, there are no viable open source offerings, there is only SAP and then, somewhere, Oracle. The reasoning is quite simple: OpenOffice can help Oracle’s application business. I haven’t spent much prior thought on this, but to me, OpenOffice seems to fit much better with Oracle than with Sun, at least on a strategic level. Somewhat to my surprise, the general opinion was dismissive of OpenOffice’s future at Oracle. ![]() Yesterday, I participated in the local JUG’s discussion of the Sun acquisition by Oracle.
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