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Jan 7 11 2:41 AM
t may not be too surprising that Google has chosen to put its support behind The Document Foundation as opposed to Oracle, but Google’s not the only one. Novell, Red Hat, and Ubuntu’s Canonical have all shown support for LibreOffice, and Mark Shuttleworth has gone so far as to say that “Office productivity software is a critical component of the free software desktop, and the Ubuntu Project will be pleased to ship LibreOffice from The Document Foundation in future releases of Ubuntu.” Conclusion With many of the major Linux vendors behind them, it looks like LibreOffice will be the office suite of the future, at least on many non-Microsoft platforms. Oracle, while perhaps never a darling of the open source community, seems to be making more enemies than friends as of late. If they cannot build more good will toward one of their most prominent offerings, the days of OpenOffice as the free suite of choice may soon be at an end.
Given that most of the major developers of Open Office.org are involved with LibreOffice, I think this is where the real development will be. Oracle's management will have to swallow their pride and join the Document Foundation, or face the prospect that OO.o will slowly become irrelevent, and lag further and further behind.
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