A serious blow to ODF
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| Author | Content |
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| r_a_trip Apr 20, 2010 10:41 AM EDT |
So, ODF is now officially Enterprise and expensive at Oracle. Instead of dragging MS Office into the 21st century and steamrolling over MS's lockin advantage, Oracle decides to make broad ODF support unattractive. Why bother with OpenOffice.org/StarOffice if it isn't 100% OOXML compatible and why bother with ODF support in MS Office if the privilege is to pay even more than just the MS Office fees? The free plugin gave StarOffice a leg up. "Hey, you can make MS Office ODF compatible for free and then you can use StarOffice, OpenOffice.org, KOffice, etc. Go ODF and you don't have compatibility problems." Now StarOffice comes with an expensive plugin to integrate in a predominantly MS Office oriented world. Smart move. I expect Microsoft is laughing all the way to the bank. |
| Bob_Robertson Apr 20, 2010 11:27 AM EDT |
> I expect Microsoft is laughing all the way to the bank. Yep. This one stinks like yesterday's diapers. Is this an example of how Oracle is going to handle their new "open" assets? |
| hkwint Apr 20, 2010 11:45 AM EDT |
Well, as of 2010, none of this matters anymore: Nobody needs stinking Oracle since MS Office 2010 has native ODF support. So why waste money on Oracle? |
| TxtEdMacs Apr 20, 2010 12:18 PM EDT |
Hans, [serious] True and Not so True. MS's ODF, the last I heard is incompatible, but superior to other ODFs. [/serious] YBT |
| foxtyke Apr 20, 2010 2:38 PM EDT |
Go get it now while you can for free: http://www.sun.com/download/index.jsp?tab=5 It's the third on the list and a direct link to download (seems someone forgot to check their site for other references) |
| HoTMetaL Apr 20, 2010 2:58 PM EDT |
Someone at Oracle woke up and removed their precious plugin already. That was fast. |
| Bob_Robertson Apr 20, 2010 4:02 PM EDT |
Maybe they read LXer. |
| techiem2 Apr 20, 2010 4:05 PM EDT |
You'll notice they didn't renumber the other downloads. Likely someone noticed and they just did a quick comment out or delete of that table row. |
| Sander_Marechal Apr 20, 2010 6:39 PM EDT |
Quoting:True and Not so True. MS's ODF, the last I heard is incompatible, but superior to other ODFs. Not quite. Office 2007 is a bit of a hit-and-miss affair sometimes. Spreadsheets and formulas are a major pain point. But Office 2010 isn't that bad actually. Have a look at the Officeshots Test Suite galleries: http://officeshots.org/galleries |
| foxtyke Apr 20, 2010 7:27 PM EDT |
Well, I tried to pull the link location out of my download history, they've replaced the executable with a stub program of some sort. |
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