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From:       ken mays <maybird1776 () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2010-09-30 18:09:08
Message-ID: 888362.16017.qm () web111315 ! mail ! gq1 ! yahoo ! com
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This is just my opinion,

Sun could have survived under different circumstances, but you have very large \
billion dollar companies to compete. The little guy can only afford to make so many \
mistakes.

Oracle, no matter the negativity, has the resources and clients to sustain a few big \
blows. A company worth $135 billion dollars is what Sun needed to back its financial \
resources which were down to $2 billion dollars. Yes, there was some shakeout from \
the big tree but sometimes it is for the betterment for the people leaving and the \
smaller businesses gaining new talent and great experience. That can help create new \
billion dollar corporate PARTNERS to help Oracle/Sun stay alive and radiant in the \
business world. Hey, everything could be bought up by oil companies!

As for StarOffice 8/9, many legacy Solaris and OpenSolaris users have it and \
OpenOffice 3.2.1/Oracle Officie is great update in its own right. Oracle is doing the \
'value add' Offcie extensions so you can always get the legacy StarOffice quality...

See: 
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/open-office/043539.html
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/open-office/oracle-odf-plugin-ds-155370.pdf
  

~ Ken Mays



--- On Thu, 9/30/10, Octave Orgeron <unixconsole@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> Contrary to popular believe there are still some major
> differences between 
> OpenOffice and the StarOffice code base. StarOffice has
> closed source bits 
> around MS Office translation and printer support that are
> absent in OpenOffice. 

> As for Oracle, they still have a lot to learn from
> Sun and the open 
> source community. Sun was great at developing technology
> and open sourcing it 
> for everyone to re-use. But at the same time, Sun has a lot
> to learn from Oracle 
> about how to turn a profit from all its IP. If Sun had a
> better business model 
> around its software, it would still be around. I think the
> open source community 
> has to keep pushing Oracle in the right direction, but not
> act so sophomoric 
> about it. 
> 
> 
> 
> *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> Octave J. Orgeron
> Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant



      
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