"Philosophically, I am bound to agree that this feels the 'right' model for an open-source community," McCreesh wrote in his blog last week. "Currently, we have a total mess in this regard."īruce D'Arcus, a college professor and co-lead for 's bibliographic project, said he thinks the Oracle-Sun deal is a "good opportunity" for the project to be completely spun off.Įven John McCreesh, head of marketing for, leans towards the organization's emancipation. "We need to fix the deeply conservative, entrenched group think around development process in the project," he said. who is overseeing Novell's custom branch of the software, is more blunt. Michael Meeks, a developer at Novell Inc. "It would provide even greater credibility and greater incentives for additional developers to join the project, from both the independent community as well as from major vendors like IBM and Google," Updegrove said.
Updegrove said he thinks that Oracle would be wise to consider putting into motion the long-stymied spin-off of. "It's a no-brainer that any company that wants - like Oracle - to make inroads on Microsoft's desktop hegemony and economic strength should do whatever it can to support and turbocharge further development of ," said Andy Updegrove, a Boston lawyer and an open-source advocate. Microsoft Office's profits, meanwhile, have been slumping. The latest version, OpenOffice 3.0, has been downloaded more than 50 million times in its first six months.
Or, might benefit Oracle as a valuable weapon in its never-ending war against Microsoft. "I hope that Oracle sees the value in focusing more on both." "I started writing about /StarOffice 10 years ago, and I would have expected that now, there would be far more name recognition and adoption," wrote Solveig Haugland, a documentation author for. According to some insiders, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's iron fist could actually help by helping to streamline software development or by improving its competitiveness against Microsoft Office - two longtime complaints leveled against Sun, which remains the group's primary financial sponsor and the source of most of its programmers nine years after making it open-source.
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