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From: ora on 20 Apr 2010 07:17
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/19/oracle_charges_for_odf_office_plugiin/
Oracle is now charging $90 for the free Sun plug-in that teaches
Microsoft Office how to use the latest open document format.

As noticed by The H, if you visit the home of the Sun ODF Plugin for
Microsoft Office, there's still a big red button that says you can
"Get it Now. Free." But if you actually click on that button, Oracle
says you can't get it now unless you fork over $9,000. That's $90 per
user, with a minimum of 100 users.
From: Craig on 20 Apr 2010 11:31
On 04/20/2010 04:17 AM, ora wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/19/oracle_charges_for_odf_office_plugiin/
> Oracle is now charging $90 for the free Sun plug-in that teaches
> Microsoft Office how to use the latest open document format.

thx for the heads-up. More changes coming...


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From: Mike Easter on 20 Apr 2010 12:03
ora wrote:

> Oracle is now charging $90 for the free Sun plug-in that teaches
> Microsoft Office how to use the latest open document format.

I don't know what my philosophy is about what the particular /price/
should be, but it seems to me that MS Office is a proprietary product,
not especially cheap, and the purpose of creating a product that enables
it to do something that it can't do natively would be payware, not freeware.

Maybe the price should be $90, maybe it should be $50 maybe it should be
some other higher or lower number.



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From: Mark Warner on 20 Apr 2010 12:11
ora wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/19/oracle_charges_for_odf_office_plugiin/
> Oracle is now charging $90 for the free Sun plug-in that teaches
> Microsoft Office how to use the latest open document format.

Too bad MS Office doesn't know how to do that natively.

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From: Shadow on 20 Apr 2010 16:11
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:17:15 -0500, ora wrote:

The title is misleading. It charges US$9000. For 1 to 100
users. There is no way you can buy a single plug-in for 90 dollars.
I suggest people just use .odf format. Much cheaper for the OP
to download openoffice, and open the doc than submit to paying for MS
Office AND the plugin. If he really wants, he can save in MS format,
all for free.
FWIW

>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/19/oracle_charges_for_odf_office_plugiin/
>Oracle is now charging $90 for the free Sun plug-in that teaches
>Microsoft Office how to use the latest open document format.
>
>As noticed by The H, if you visit the home of the Sun ODF Plugin for
>Microsoft Office, there's still a big red button that says you can
>"Get it Now. Free." But if you actually click on that button, Oracle
>says you can't get it now unless you fork over $9,000. That's $90 per
>user, with a minimum of 100 users.
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