Previously, the Document Foundation, which counts Google and Red Hat among its supporters, asked Oracle to join the organization and lend the brand name to its efforts. It's also unclear how Oracle's decision will affect offshoots of the codebase, such as the Document Foundation's LibreOffice, which emerged last year amid concerns over how Oracle was dealing with community members. Website links for Cloud Office were also gone on Friday.
Its move is apparently effective immediately a number of links on its website related to Open Office were dead on Friday.Īlthough Oracle didn't specify so, the future of its recently announced Cloud Office product also seems in question. Oracle's decision suggests the company has had difficulty selling many Open Office licenses since it acquired Sun Microsystems, which sold the software under the name Star Office.
"Oracle is focused on Linux and MySQL because both of these products have won broad based adoption among commercial and government customers," he said. Screven went on to confirm Oracle's commitment to other open-source technologies, such as Linux and MySQL.
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