Oracle Quits StarOffice

[SweX]

Full Story:http://www.itproportal.com/2011/04/17/oracle-says-quits-to-openoffice/

-{ Quote: "The company announced that the application suite is now being handed over to the open source community while it plans to emphasise more on MySQL and Linux as far its open source efforts are concerned.

Expressing his view on the subject, Oracle Chief Architect Edward Screven mentioned, "Given the breadth of interest in free personal productivity applications and the rapid evolution of personal computing technologies, we believe the OpenOffice.org would be best managed by an organization focused on serving that broad constituency on a non-commercial basis" " }-

[J_L]

Title is misleading. Oracle just gave up on StarOffice, the commercial version of OpenOffice.

[SweX]

-{ Quote: "Title is misleading. Oracle just gave up on StarOffice, the commercial version of OpenOffice." }-
Title fixed.

I just posted the title from the article :-[

I have never heard of StarOffice before, and the article doesn't mention StarOffice anywhere.
It's all about OpenOffice hmmm confused.

[doktornotor]

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I have never heard of StarOffice before, and the article doesn't mention StarOffice anywhere.
It's all about OpenOffice hmmm confused." }-

StarOffice is the commercial variant, and in fact the predecessor of OO.org. When they have open-sourced the code, it became OO.org and Sun kept StarOffice as a commercial product together with OO.org.

[SweX]

-{ Quote: "StarOffice is the commercial variant, and in fact the predecessor of OO.org. When they have open-sourced the code, it became OO.org and Sun kept StarOffice as a commercial product together with OO.org." }-

I see :thumb:

[sbseven]

-{ Quote: "Title is misleading. Oracle just gave up on StarOffice, the commercial version of OpenOffice." }-
Did Oracle ever use the name StarOffice? I thought the commerical product was renamed to Open Office when they acquired Sun. Hence the OP link doesn't mention StarOffice.

I'm also wondering where this leaves LibreOffice?. This was forked from Open Office following tensions between Oracle and the Community...

[doktornotor]

-{ Quote: "Did Oracle ever use the name StarOffice? I thought the commerical product was renamed to Open Office when they acquired Sun. Hence the OP link doesn't mention StarOffice.
" }-

Has nothing to do with Sun acquisition, as explained above. StarOffice was here ages before OO.org.

[sbseven]

-{ Quote: "Has nothing to do with Sun acquisition, as explained above. StarOffice was here ages before OO.org." }-
I was merely saying that StarOffice was renamed by Oracle to Oracle Open Office. That's why there's no mention of StarOffice in the article and why OP was confused slightly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Open_Office

[SweX]

-{ Quote: "no mention of StarOffice in the article and why OP was confused slightly." }-

Exactly :wacko:

[J_L]

StarOffice is within this article (http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/225357/oracle_gives_up_on_commercial_open_office.html), which is the source of the thread's article. Click the mentioned link.