What Oracle cancelled is "Oracle Open Office" which was the new name given to StarOffice, the commercial build of OpenOffice.org with the addition of propietary plug-ins.
Oracle kills off commercial edition of OpenOffice.org http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/applications/3275075/oracle-kills-off-commercial-edition-of-openofficeorg/
You know, the product that used to be described at http://sun.com/staroffice and which redirected to this Oracle.com page
http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/open-office/open-office-170241.html (and which now is gone)
Google Cache: http://pages.citebite.com/m5c0d6o8lqqk
> The reason being of course that all the volunteer contributors who made OOo a real product left in doves to join LibreOffice. Not counting all the Sun developers who quit.
Sun told me they had 100 paid developers working on StarOffice/OpenOffice.org. At the time of the much-hyped "exodus" of OpenOffice.org developers to "Libre" Office, the number of developers "leaving" was quoted at around 30. So that means the "exodus" was only one-third of the programming workforce, with 2/3 still employed by Oracle. Not to mention the IBMers working on its own office suite based on OpenOffice.org.
Will Oracle lay off its 60 OpenOffice.org developers and cancel the OpenOffice.org project? nothing of what I read indicates that, just that they cancelled "Oracle Open Office", the commercial product (formerly known as StarOffice).
After reading so much press copy-paste stories based on mixing up "Oracle Open Office" with OpenOffice.org, I think I´ll wait for an official statement on OpenOffice.org before jumping to conclusions.
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