http://news.com.com/2100-1001-949877.html Sun Microsystems has open-sourced its StarOffice product--but when Ellison asked for a show of StarOffice users and whether they were happy, he received a tepid response, even from the partisan crowd. "Open source" software may be viewed, modified and redistributed for free, unlike proprietary software such as Microsoft Windows.
"That's the challenge?the real barrier to providing competition. I hope there is an open-source response to Office--a concerted, better-coordinated plan in addressing the 'Microsoft Office gap,'" Ellison said in a speech at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.
He hopes? He probably knows about OpenOffice, but it doesn't support his FUD. And, I've never met a 'tepid' OpenOffice user. They are all as wildly enthusiastic about it as I am.
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