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Mr. Asim Rajput
OOo is of plenty of open source program projects that Oracle obtained in its acquisition of Sun. OOo has long been plagued by governance issues & friction between its corporate stakeholders. Sun's copyright task policies & bureaucratic code review method significantly delayed community participation in the project. Oracle declined to address these issues after its acquisition of Sun & exacerbated the friction by failing to engage with the OOo community in a transparent & open way.
In a statement issued on Friday, Oracle announced that it intends to discontinue commercial development of the OpenOffice.org (OOo) office suite. The move
In a statement issued on Friday, Oracle announced that it intends to discontinue commercial development of the OpenOffice.org (OOo) office suite. The move
A group of prominent OOo contributors finally decided to fork the project, generating an alternative called LibreOffice. They founded a nonprofit organization called The Document Foundation (TDF) in order to generate a vendor-neutral governance body for the application. LibreOffice is based on the OOo source code, but it also incorporates a immense number of other improvements driven by its own developer community.
Most of the major companies that have historicallyin the past been involved in OOo development have moved to stand behind TDF & LibreOffice, including Red Hat, Novell, Google, & Canonical. LibreOffice has also succeeded in attracting a nice portion of OOo's independent contributors. The ecosystem-wide shift in favor of LibreOffice has left Oracle as the only major party still developing OOo, forcing the company to compete against the broader community.
Most of the major companies that have historicallyin the past been involved in OOo development have moved to stand behind TDF & LibreOffice, including Red Hat, Novell, Google, & Canonical. LibreOffice has also succeeded in attracting a nice portion of OOo's independent contributors. The ecosystem-wide shift in favor of LibreOffice has left Oracle as the only major party still developing OOo, forcing the company to compete against the broader community.
The power of the fork
When TDF was founded, the group's leadership invited Oracle to participate in the hope that the database giant would be willing to hand over the OOo trademark & permit the vendor-neutral governance body to take over stewardship of the project. Oracle rejected the idea & then went a step further by pressuring TDF supporters to step down from their leadership roles in the OOo project.
The community defections finally made OOo financially unsustainable for Oracle, which is why the company has finally thrown in the towel. Oracle says that it is prepared to hand over control of the project to the community, but doing so at this point would be tiny over a symbolic gesture; the community has already moved on of its own accord.
Oracle now has tiny choice but to abandon its commercial ambitions for OOo because the growing momentum of the more inclusive LibreOffice fork is making OOo irrelevant. In addition to selling a commercial version of OOo like Sun, Oracle was also building a proprietary cloud-based office suite designed to work in Web browsers & on various mobile devices.
There's still unanswered questions about how Oracle's decision to drop OOo will impact its Cloud Office product, which had its own independent code base. Oracle has already started removing material pertaining to Oracle Cloud Office from its net site, proposing that the product may have been terminated.
Oracle's current approach to dealing with the communities that participate in its own open source application projects is clearly not sustainable, & is arguably becoming detrimental to some aspects of the company's long-term business agenda.
The LibreOffice escape from Oracle is a powerful demonstration of how open source forking can be used to protect community autonomy & lock out exploitative stakeholders. Several other Oracle open source projects are also declaring independence from the database giant.
When TDF was founded, the group's leadership invited Oracle to participate in the hope that the database giant would be willing to hand over the OOo trademark & permit the vendor-neutral governance body to take over stewardship of the project. Oracle rejected the idea & then went a step further by pressuring TDF supporters to step down from their leadership roles in the OOo project.
The community defections finally made OOo financially unsustainable for Oracle, which is why the company has finally thrown in the towel. Oracle says that it is prepared to hand over control of the project to the community, but doing so at this point would be tiny over a symbolic gesture; the community has already moved on of its own accord.
Oracle now has tiny choice but to abandon its commercial ambitions for OOo because the growing momentum of the more inclusive LibreOffice fork is making OOo irrelevant. In addition to selling a commercial version of OOo like Sun, Oracle was also building a proprietary cloud-based office suite designed to work in Web browsers & on various mobile devices.
There's still unanswered questions about how Oracle's decision to drop OOo will impact its Cloud Office product, which had its own independent code base. Oracle has already started removing material pertaining to Oracle Cloud Office from its net site, proposing that the product may have been terminated.
Oracle's current approach to dealing with the communities that participate in its own open source application projects is clearly not sustainable, & is arguably becoming detrimental to some aspects of the company's long-term business agenda.
The LibreOffice escape from Oracle is a powerful demonstration of how open source forking can be used to protect community autonomy & lock out exploitative stakeholders. Several other Oracle open source projects are also declaring independence from the database giant.
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