Oracle Turning Open Office More Open Source

In a surprise move on Oracle’s part, the popular Microsoft Word alternative Open Office will now be a community project and there will no longer be commercial suites. The actual ramifications of this aren’t quite clear yet, but Edward Screven, who is the chief corporate architect, said, “We intend to begin working immediately with community members to further the continued success of Open Office. Oracle will continue to strongly support the adoption of open standards-based document formats, such as the Open Document Format (ODF).” Open Office has been the object of a lot of politics between companies, which makes this move rather surprising. To read more about the drama over Open Office and a few more details of the announcement, check out this article.