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From: Craig on 6 Jul 2010 09:43 Rich Schwerin is "interviewed" by their in-house magazine about all things open source at Oracle. Two things: - no mention of OpenSolaris (or i.e. ZFS) and - OpenOffice now has its own "business group." > Oracle Magazine: We�ve discussed MySQL and Java. Another open source > product with a significant installed base is OpenOffice. What does > Oracle have in store for OpenOffice? > > Screven: OpenOffice is an open standards-based office productivity > suite. It�s being managed inside Oracle as a separate global business > unit, which means that its development team and its sales team are > within their own special organization, and I think it�s a very > compelling offering. It allows users to share documents that are > defined in an open standards-based format, and there�s a new > technology coming out of that group called Oracle Cloud Office. > Oracle Cloud Office lets a customer manipulate standards-based > open-document-format documents through rich HTML user interfaces. And > those rich HTML user interfaces can be accessed through a browser on > your laptop or your desktop and also on browsers that are available > today through smartphones. <http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/10-jul/o40interview.html> -- -Craig
From: Jeffrey Needle on 6 Jul 2010 15:37 And given that this is being promoted by a commercial software house, is there any chance that Oracle will offer its cloud services free of charge? Craig wrote: > Rich Schwerin is "interviewed" by their in-house magazine about all > things open source at Oracle. Two things: > > - no mention of OpenSolaris (or i.e. ZFS) and > - OpenOffice now has its own "business group." > >> Oracle Magazine: We�ve discussed MySQL and Java. Another open source >> product with a significant installed base is OpenOffice. What does >> Oracle have in store for OpenOffice? >> >> Screven: OpenOffice is an open standards-based office productivity >> suite. It�s being managed inside Oracle as a separate global business >> unit, which means that its development team and its sales team are >> within their own special organization, and I think it�s a very >> compelling offering. It allows users to share documents that are >> defined in an open standards-based format, and there�s a new >> technology coming out of that group called Oracle Cloud Office. >> Oracle Cloud Office lets a customer manipulate standards-based >> open-document-format documents through rich HTML user interfaces. And >> those rich HTML user interfaces can be accessed through a browser on >> your laptop or your desktop and also on browsers that are available >> today through smartphones. > > <http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/10-jul/o40interview.html> > >
From: Craig on 6 Jul 2010 16:36 On 07/06/2010 12:37 PM, Jeffrey Needle wrote: > And given that this is being promoted by a commercial software house, is > there any chance that Oracle will offer its cloud services free of charge? > >> <http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/10-jul/o40interview.html> Free of charge??? You /are/ talking about Larry Ellison's Oracle, right? <grin> -- -Craig
From: Jeffrey Needle on 6 Jul 2010 20:37 Craig wrote: > On 07/06/2010 12:37 PM, Jeffrey Needle wrote: >> And given that this is being promoted by a commercial software house, is >> there any chance that Oracle will offer its cloud services free of >> charge? >> >>> <http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/10-jul/o40interview.html> >>> > > Free of charge??? > > You /are/ talking about Larry Ellison's Oracle, right? <grin> > Ha! Yeah, and hence my question...
From: Jeffrey Needle on 6 Jul 2010 20:38
Yrrah wrote: > Jeffrey Needle<jeff.needle(a)gmail.com>: > >> And given that this is being promoted by a commercial software house, is >> there any chance that Oracle will offer its cloud services free of charge? > > My dear fellow, it's July, not April 1st. > > Yrrah > Hoop! |